Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The rule of joy and the law of duty seem to me all one.
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Why are comedic parts for women the exception, not the rule?
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The only rule is there's only one rule: no rules.
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There's no rule, no law, no regulation that says you can't come back. So I have every right to come back.
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No king should rule absolutely, like a dictator.
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Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.
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Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?
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Rule of art: Cant kills creativity!
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I read that my lifelong dream is to serve as speaker with Hillary Clinton as president. So what?
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If we do not lay out ourselves in the service of mankind whom should we serve?
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I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The only way that you can find any semblance of a rule, or make any semblance of your own rule, is to tear up the rulebook. Throw it out, burn it, throw it away, and make your own rules.
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The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
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Let optimists rule the world.
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I am convinced that we will never build a democratic state based on rule of law if we do not at the same time build a state that is-regardless of how unscientific this may sound to the ears of a political scientist-humane, moral, intellectual and spiritual, and cultural.
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Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve.
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I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.
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To the extent to which we believe in this world, we are heir to the laws which rule this place.
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There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man.
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Earthworms are the intenstines of the soil.
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Indeed, it may be laid down as a general principle, that the more extended the ancestry, the greater the amount of violence and vagabondism; for in ancient days those two amusements, combining a wholesome excitement with a promising means of repairing shattered fortunes, were at once the ennobling pursuit and the healthful recreation of the Quality of this land.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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To govern was to serve, not to rule.
