Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

Seneca the Younger

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• My hair and make-up secret is 'the messier the better.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
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• People talk about 'getting rid of the old image', and I guess there's some merit in that. But the truth is that people loved 'The Wonder Years' - I can't turn my back on it.

  

  Danica McKellar
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• I used to be more paranoid and stressed, constantly worrying about my Plan B. But the truth is I don't have one.

  

  Uma Thurman
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• My only real advice to Oscar nominees is, 'If you haven't actually seen a competitor's film, don't fib and say you have and blow smoke up their wahooziewhatsits.' Always best to be frank and tell them the truth.

  

  Vera Farmiga
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• Of all liars the most arrogant are biographers: those who would have us believe, having surveyed a few boxes full of letters, diaries, bank statements and photographs, that they can play at the recording angel and tell the whole truth about another human life.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• I always felt that a scientist owes the world only one thing, and that is the truth as he sees it.

  

  Hans Eysenck
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  • Always

• Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• I don't think we're living in great times for movies, to tell you the truth.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Great
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• Perhaps the truth depends on a walk around the lake.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Truth
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  • Lake

• Carlos was a character, a character fabricated by Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, fabricated by the secret services of the epoch, fabricated by the governments of the epoch, by the radical groups of the epoch, by the communications media.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • Character
  • Secret
  • Media

• This simple truth is the essence of my message to Muslims throughout the world: know who you are, who you want to be, and start talking and working with whom you are not. Find common values and build with fellow citizens a society based on diversity and equality.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • World
  • Truth
  • Society

• Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

  

  Lactantius
  • Truth
  • Human
  • Information

• You can't serve the public good without the truth as a bottom line.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Good
  • Truth

• Truth may sometimes hurt, but delusion harms.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • May
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  • Hurt

• The rash assertion that 'God made man in His own image' is ticking like a time bomb at the foundation of many faiths, and as the hierarchy of the universe is disclosed to us, we may have to recognize this chilling truth: if there are any gods whose chief concern is man, they cannot be very important gods.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Time
  • God
  • Important

• Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to keep this in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
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  • Soul

• Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
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  • Lies

• The people who have sufficient passion for the truth to give the truth a chance to prevail, if it runs counter to their bias, are in a minority. How important is this 'minority?' It is difficult to say at this point, for, at the present time their influence on governmental decisions is not perceptible.

  

  Leo Szilard
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Truth

• Severus, please fetch me the strongest truth potion you posess, then go down to the kitchen and bring up the house elf called Winky. Minerva, kindly go down to Hagrids house where you will find a large black dog sitting in the pumpkin patch. Take the dog up to my office, tell him I will be with him shortly, then come back here.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • Truth
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• Let us work together for unity and love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Work
  • Love
  • Unity

• The utility model of computing - computing resources delivered over the network in much the same way that electricity or telephone service reaches our homes and offices today - makes more sense than ever.

  

  Scott McNealy
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  • Electricity
  • Homes

• As for that footage, video footage showing the dead children allegedly killed in the chemical attack, it is horrible. The question is only who did it and what they did, and who is responsible for this. These pictures do not answer the questions I have just posed. There is an opinion that it's a compilation by these very rebels, who are connected with al-Qaida and who were always distinguished by exceptional brutality.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Children
  • Opinion
  • Gay

• Truth will never be tedious unto him that travelleth in the secrets of nature; there is nothing but falsehood that glutteth us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Truth
  • Secret
  • Falsehood