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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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.

  

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• 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.

  

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

  

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• 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
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• Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.

  

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

  

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

  

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• I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.

  

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

  

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

  

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• 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:

  

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• 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
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• Compassion for animals is intimately connected with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he, who is cruel to living creatures, cannot be a good man. Moreover, this compassion manifestly flows from the same source whence arise the virtues of justice and loving-kindness towards men.

  

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• The world is in such a bad condition that if they don't find what you call a redeemer, every man, woman and child on this planet will be eliminated.

  

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• I'm not even sure what I want, but that's not the point - it's that I want it now.

  

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• When you’ve parked the second car in the garage, and installed the hot tub, and skied in Colorado, and wind-surfed in the Caribbean, when you’ve had your first love affair and your second and your third, the question will remain, where does the dream end for me?

  

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• You can't have a sustainable US economy without a great education system. Teach students to do the job right. You don't have an innovative economy unless you have a great education.

  

  Walter Isaacson
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• 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