Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

Seneca the Younger

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• Silence is also conversation.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
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• A man is known by the silence he keeps.

  

  Oliver Herford
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• I like peace and solitude and silence.

  

  Carla Bruni
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• The desert has its holiness of silence, the crowd its holiness of conversation.

  

  Walter Elliot
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• I love silence. But I usually only listen to that when I'm sleeping.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
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• Silence in love bewrays more woeThan words, though ne’er so witty:A beggar that is dumb, you know, May challenge double pity.

  

  Walter Raleigh
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• Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• To restore silence is the role of objects.

  

  Samuel Beckett
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• To which Silence of course made no reply, letting him hear what he had said and feel its foolishness thoroughly.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
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• It is on some, but not all, of these misty autumn day-breaks that one may hear the chorus of the quail. The silence is suddenly broken by a dozen contralto voices, no longer able to restrain their praise of the day to come.

  

  Aldo Leopold
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• Silence is like a flame, you see?

  

  Marcel Marceau
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• I like the muted sounds, the shroud of grey, and the silence that comes with fog.

  

  Om Malik
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• I love the Capitol rotunda. It's just so big and so grand, and I love being in the Capitol at night when it's empty, and you can go stand in the Capitol rotunda and bask in the silence of history. You can sort of imagine all of the things that have happened inside that Rotunda from presidents lying in state to other important events.

  

  Kevin Yoder
  • Important
  • History
  • Night

• The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence.

  

  Akiva ben Joseph
  • Law
  • Wisdom
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• Letterman, despite whatever idiotic (or worse?) things he may have done with women on his staff, was wise enough to realize that silence isn't permanent and peace of mind can't be bought.

  

  Alafair Burke
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  • Done

• Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

  

  Jay Griffiths
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• Everything is Song. Everything is Silence. Since it all turns out to be illusion, perfectly being what it is, having nothing to do with good or bad, you are free to die laughing.

  

  James Broughton
  • Good
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• Only in silence the word, only in dark the light, only in dying life: bright the hawk's flight on the empty sky.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Life
  • Light
  • Dark

• Maintain silence in the presence of birth to save both the sanity of the mother and the child and safeguard the home to which they will go.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
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  • Home
  • Mother

• Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
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• They're a good team, but it means more because we won the game. It didn't really matter what team came in here tonight, (we) just had to win the game. We had to get off the (streak). Regardless of who it was, we just had to win the basketball game.

  

  Allen Iverson
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• If a student takes a Stanford computer class and a Princeton business class, it shows they are motivated and have skills. We know it has helped employees get better jobs.

  

  Daphne Koller
  • Business
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• Where silence is not allowed, what then is permissible?

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Silence