Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

Seneca the Younger

• Giving
• Speak
• Evidence
• Blame
• Praise

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• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
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• The United States is going to be a rich country, it is going to be prosperous, but it is not going to be able to take the lead in the next phase of global economic development.

  

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• If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.

  

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• The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.

  

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• Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.

  

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• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
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• Well, I think the United States first of all has to recognize the world for what it is.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
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• Stephen Colbert used to be my friend. I even signed the poor baby's cast when he hurt his hand.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
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• There is light at the end of the tunnel for India, but it's that of an oncoming train which will run them over.

  

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• I have to plead basic ignorance of most new jazz artists here.

  

  Gary Lucas
  • Ignorance
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• Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.

  

  Katarina Witt
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• After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I’ve decided that I’d like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding - I was fired today. If you’re wondering why … you haven’t been paying attention.

  

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• If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.

  

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• Pop music is getting so emo. It's great. Emotional girl for life. I see myself in the centre of that.

  

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• A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

  

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• I think I'm going to have to live vicariously through my daughter's rebellion because I certainly never did go through adolescence.

  

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• I've become more like water, I'm more relaxed and I'll say, "Okay, let's just completely change it and do it that way."

  

  Taika Waititi
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• When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.

  

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• The only thing that can set aside a law as wrong is a better law, or an idea of a better law. And the only thing that an give a law the quality of better or worse is the concrete result which it promotes or fails to promote.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Giving
  • Quality
  • Failing

• Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Jr.
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• Again, it is possible to fail in many ways, while to succeed is possible only in one way; for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
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  • Succeed

• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Giving
  • Speak
  • Evidence