Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Seneca the Younger
Quotes to Explore
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Between the ages of 24 and 27, I read Freud's complete works, everything that had been translated into English. It was very stimulating intellectually. But I did not accept his view of neurosis or of human nature.
Nathaniel Branden
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Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!
Taslima Nasrin
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
D. H. Lawrence
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
Floyd Skloot
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Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.
Narendra Modi
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Without this tremendous passion for power, influence, and advantage which money gives, how could nature develop the highest type of man? Without this infinite longing, whence would come the discipline which industry, perseverance, tact, sagacity, and frugality give?
Orison Swett Marden
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I do think I tend to have a darker nature than most.
Fairuza Balk
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The animal kingdom is destined by nature to serve, and that service is fulfilled in alleviating the temporal and physical needs of man; the animal spirit or soul is limited by time - it dies with the body.
Saint Bernard
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Experiences such as, 'I went; I came; I was; I did,' come naturally to everyone. From these experiences, does it not appear that the consciousness 'I' is the subject of those various acts? Enquiry into the true nature of that consciousness, and remaining as oneself, is the way to understand, through enquiry, one's true nature.
Ramana Maharshi
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Science is like a love affair with nature; an elusive, tantalising mistress. It has all the turbulence, twists and turns of romantic love, but that's part of the game.
Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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We gain our ends only with the laws of nature; we control her only by understanding her laws.
Jacob Bronowski
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In this business you have to develop a thick skin, but I'm always going to feel everything. It's my nature.
Taylor Swift
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I have always looked at my competencies before accepting any responsibility.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.
Abe Lemons
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There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.
John Sentamu
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Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Some summers my father would take us down to visit our grandmother in Louisville, who was an ex-slave, Susan Jones, and she had a shotgun shack they call it, and no electricity, a well in the back, a coal stove, kerosene lamps.
Quincy Jones
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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.
Seneca the Younger
