Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
Quotes to Explore
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
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If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
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O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
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We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it.
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Giving opens the way for receiving.
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Older people are most beautiful when they have what is lacking in the young: poise, erudition, wisdom, phronesis, and this post-heroic absence of agitation.
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If a person tells me he has been to the worst places I have no reason to judge him; but if he tells me it was his superior wisdom that enabled him to go there, then I know he is a fraud.
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You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment.
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I'm looking for a market for wisdom.
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It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
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The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.
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Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
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Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
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The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
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All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
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I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.
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It is hard to prevent oneself from believing what one so keenly desires.
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Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous circumstances, would have lain dormant.
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True wisdom consists in not departing from nature and in molding our conduct according to her laws and model.
