Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Beauty without expression is boring.
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Going around Rome, you can find beauty because, quite simply, Rome is very beautiful. But the beauty of the people is sometimes harder to discover.
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There is not one description of beauty - that in fact it has different faces, different stories, and different background, and it's important to embrace all of those.
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It's one of the functions of the theater to shock and titillate and appall, apart from entertain and delight.
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The beauty of independence, departure, actions that rely on themselves.
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A lot of technologies in the world were unusual in the beginning, and became standard. That's the beauty of bottom-up entrepreneurship and innovations.
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Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
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The beauty of our country is that when it was founded that they took some time to lay out civil liberties in the first 10 Amendments - the Bill of Rights. I'm a firm believer in those civil liberties and the ability to have your own opinion.
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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
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Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.
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History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
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A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.
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Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
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Variety of uniformities makes complete beauty.
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I wanted to make a living, but I really was not interested in money at all. I was interested in being a great comedian.
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I was a black boy at the height of the crack era, which meant that my instructors pitched education as the border between those who would prosper in America, and those who would be fed to the great hydra of prison, teenage pregnancy and murder.
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In reality, I know I'm not hurt directly by sexism; however, my life is made less because of it, so I started thinking about the fallout from relationships in which people feed off each other.
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The gun is not out of Irish politics.
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Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight?
