Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

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• My father is an amazing person.

  

  Mahesh Babu
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  • Amazing
  • Person

• We have proclaimed to the world our determination 'to die freemen, rather than to live slaves.' We have appealed to Heaven for the justice of our cause, and in Heaven we have placed our trust.

  

  Samuel Adams
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Time
  • World
  • Real

• Dead souls dream only of death. Small dreams for small men. It is life that expands to fill worlds. Life is your master, or death is

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Life
  • Men
  • Soul

• People … don't want to be cured or changed or eliminated. They want to be whoever it is that they've come to be.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • People
  • Want
  • Changed

• For a filmmaker, it's a rare chance to do a personal film on a big canvas.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Film
  • Chance
  • Bigs

• There are no unrealistic goals, only unrealistic deadlines.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Goal
  • Goals
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• Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.

  

  Tadeusz Borowski
  • Joy
  • Laughter
  • Youth

• I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • Heard
  • Forgotten
  • Seen

• Qu'ils mangent de la brioche. Let them eat cake. On being told that her people had no bread. Attributed to Marie-Antoinette, but remark is much older. Rousseau refers in his Confessions, 1740, to a similar remark, as a well-known saying. Others attribute the remark to the wife of Louis XIV.

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • People
  • Wife
  • Bread

• The dog is the god of frolic.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Dog
  • Frolic

• In the state of society in which we now find ourselves, it is difficult to imagine a nation which lived solely on bread and vegetables.

  

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
  • Difficult
  • Imagine
  • States

• The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Prophecies
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• She said we got to get his name off the title.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Name
  • Title

• To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.

  

  Christoph Martin Wieland
  • Spirits

• Are we not Spirits, that are shaped into a body, into an Appearance; and that fade away again into air and Invisibility? Oh, Heaven, it is mysterious, it is awful to consider that we not only carry a future Ghost within us; but are, in very deed, Ghosts! These Limbs, whence had we them; this stormy Force; this life-blood with its burning Passion? They are dust and shadow; a Shadow-system gathered round our Me; wherein, through some moments or years, the Divine Essence is to be revealed in the Flesh.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • Passion
  • Force
  • Consider

• Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.

  

  Euripides
  • Friendship
  • Trouble
  • Show

• I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Actors
  • Mirror
  • Marry

• We ought to take outdoor walks, to refresh and raise our spirits by deep breathing in the open air.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Walks
  • Spirits
  • Open Air