Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

Seneca the Younger

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• Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Fashion

• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.

  

  Rachel Corrie
  • Hope
  • Freedom
  • Inspiration

• At fashion shows, my brows often get bleached, and they've been dyed back much darker - like jet black, where you can't even see my skin. Sometimes with Just for Men! What a mistake. At times, the two brows aren't even the same color!

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • Men
  • Black
  • Fashion

• All our best men are laughed at in this nightmare land.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Men
  • Best
  • Land

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Freedom
  • Pain
  • Thoughts

• As a heterosexual man, I've never really doubted my sexuality, but I've had men in my life and thought, 'If I was gay, I'd be with him' - you know?

  

  Garret Dillahunt
  • Life
  • Men
  • Man

• America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • America
  • Freedom
  • Lose

• A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Gold
  • Promise
  • Bank

• No actor has complete freedom.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Freedom
  • Actor
  • Complete

• You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Freedom
  • You
  • Like

• Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • God
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• I have a beautiful Hellenistic gold and garnet ring - it's more than 2,200 years old, but it looks very modern.

  

  Kate Reardon
  • Beautiful
  • Gold
  • Old

• All men have an equal right to the free development of their faculties; they have an equal right to the impartial protection of the state; but it is not true, it is against all the laws of reason and equity, it is against the eternal nature of things.

  

  Victor Cousin
  • Men
  • True
  • Nature

• I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Men
  • True
  • Education

• These men and women remind us that heroism is found not only on the fields of battle. They remind us that heroism does not require special training or physical strength. Heroism is here, all around us, in the hearts of so many of our fellow citizens, just waiting to be summoned - as it was on Saturday morning.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Morning

• What was the good working for freedom all your life and ending up without any freedom at all?

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Up
  • Good

• I was happier going back to my roots: training like men do in my hometown of Pittsburgh. Back home the guys in the gyms don't lift to look good; they're lifting to lift. They do it because they want to squat more and bench more.

  

  Joe Manganiello
  • Good
  • Men
  • Home

• Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs.

  

  Plutarch
  • Gold
  • River
  • Plato

• There is no way to know Jackson’s thought process as he prepared to engage the Union army in front of him. He knew very little about it and certainly he had no idea that, at the moment he ordered his men to advance, he was actually outnumbered five to one. But it was characteristic of the man that his means of determining the enemy’s strength was to hit the enemy in the face and then see what happened. Typical, too, was his impatience to fight. As at Port Republic, he chose to attack before his full force had arrived.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
  • Men
  • Enemy
  • Moment

• I only date college guys.” “You don’t know any college guys,” Kami pointed out. Angela’s gaze went to Kami, and she smiled. “Which leaves me with more time for napping.

  

  Sarah Rees Brennan
  • Guy
  • College
  • Angela

• Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Kind

• For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Freedom
  • Gold