Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

Seneca the Younger

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• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
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• Men are dogs. Men are dogs. We got to stop it. Men are not dogs. Uh-uh. Dogs are loyal.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Men
  • Stop
  • Dogs

• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • War
  • Better

• In antiquity the sage kings recognized that men's nature is bad and that their tendencies were not being corrected and their lawlessness controlled.

  

  Xun Kuang
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Nature

• 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
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• Feminism has been so co-opted, but the fact is, feminism benefits men as well.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Men
  • Benefits
  • Feminism

• Last night, two men tried to force my shutters. I recognized them: they are two of Rodin's Italian models. He told them to kill me. I am in his way; he wants to get rid of me.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Men
  • Night
  • Italian

• The world does not owe men a living, but business, if it is to fulfill its ideal, owes men an opportunity to earn a living.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • World
  • Men
  • Business

• The first and most imperative necessity in war is money, for money means everything else - men, guns, ammunition.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Men
  • Money
  • War

• But if cattle and horses or lions had hands, or were able to draw with their hands and do the work that men can do, horses would draw the forms of the gods like horses, and cattle like cattle, and they would make their bodies such as they each had themselves.

  

  Xenophanes
  • Work
  • Men
  • Hands

• Studies show that women are more likely than men to die in natural disasters. Women's voices must be heard.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Die

• That was not what men and women fought for during the war.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • Men
  • Women
  • War

• Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Time
  • Men
  • Action

• I think I just love films where men have complete breakdowns.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Men
  • Love
  • Think

• Once upon a time all the men of mind and genius in the world became of one belief-that is to say, of no belief. But it wearied them to think that within a few years after their death many cults and systems and prognostications would be ascribed to them which they had never meditated nor intended. So they said to one another:

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Time
  • World
  • Men

• I’m no idealist to believe firmly in the integrity of our courts and in the jury system - that is no ideal to me, it is a living, working reality. Gentlemen, a court is no better than each man of you sitting before me on this jury. A court is only as sound as its jury, and a jury is only as sound as the men who make it up.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Men

• This too I know-and wise it wereIf each could know the same-That every prison that men buildIs built with bricks of shame,And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Christ
  • Prison

• We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• The praising thy mercy. There hath not been here; O supreme Ruler; There hath not been; there will not be, One so good as the Lord. There hath not been born in the day of the people Any one equal to God. And no one will acknowledge Any one equal to him. Above heaven, below heaven, There is no Ruler but he. Above sea, below sea, He created us.

  

  Taliesin
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Rapunzel is a bit more relatable than the other princesses, especially because she doesn't even know that she's a princess until the very end of the movie. I like to think of her as the bohemian Disney princess. She's barefoot and living in a tower. She paints and reads... She's a Renaissance woman.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• Remember, tomorrow is promised to no one.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Remember
  • Tomorrow
  • Promised

• We must rediscover our faith in the future and join with one another to ensure that nonviolence is the prevalent choice for government, law enforcement, the non-profit sector, business, education, media, entertainment, arts, and for the global citizenry.

  

  Bernice King
  • Business
  • Future
  • Faith

• We all come out from Gogol's 'Overcoat'.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Come Out
  • Overcoat

• It is safer to offend certain men than it is to oblige them; for as proof that they owe nothing they seek recourse in hatred.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Certain
  • Revenge