Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'd say that Spanish football is probably the best I've seen.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Best
  • Football
  • Say

• There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Authority
  • Separate

• Don't you believe that there is in man a deep so profound as to be hidden even to him in whom it is?

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Deep

• As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.

  

  Dale T. Mortensen
  • Job
  • Future
  • House

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Best
  • Always
  • Person

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Opinion
  • Arguments

• The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Life
  • Art
  • Purpose

• I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • Trying
  • Environment

• If I don't seem as depressed or morose as I should be, sorry to disappoint you.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • You
  • Sorry
  • Seem

• I try not to second-guess editors; they're the clients, and I have no expectation that my strip is going to make it into every paper every day.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Try

• After coming to India, I have felt the loneliest I have ever been in my life. I don't have a support system here.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Life
  • Support
  • My Life

• For me, the labor movement and public education are linked as the essential building blocks to a strong middle class and a path to the American dream. It's why I went to Cornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations as an undergrad and then to law school.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • School
  • Why
  • American

• He who is not capable of enduring poverty is not capable of being free.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Free
  • Poverty
  • Capable

• Being in love is the best thing in my life.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Life
  • Love
  • Best

• You can take risks with the characters and their development in a standalone novel.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • You
  • Development
  • Risks

• I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • People
  • Future
  • Respect

• For, as blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • May
  • Fool

• As to those in whom the will of God is not inwardly accomplished,-because there is no inward life in them, for they are altogether outward,-upon them the will of God is wrought as alone it can be; appearing at first sight bitter and ungracious, though in reality merciful and loving in the highest degree. To those who do not love God, all things must work together immediately for pain and torment, until, by means of the tribulation, they are led to salvation at last.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Life
  • Work
  • God

• Better to be quirky alone than unhappy together.

  

  Anita Hamilton
  • Together
  • Alone
  • Unhappy

• Selfish men make the best lovers. They're prepared to invest in the women's pleasures so that they can collect an even bigger dividend for themselves.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Men
  • Women
  • Selfish

• Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pain

• He who would do great things should not attempt them all alone.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Alone
  • Attempt
  • Great Things