Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.

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• All wars, even the noblest, bring a reckoning of means and ends.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Ends
  • Bring
  • Reckoning

• One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • Democracy
  • Realize

• 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

• My first priority is trying to protect my family.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Family
  • First
  • Priority

• Pilates is great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Pilates

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Know
  • Me

• In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Great
  • Poetry
  • English

• I analyze religious knowledge and consciousness.

  

  Youssef Ziedan
  • Knowledge
  • Religious
  • Analyze

• I'm a little old-fashioned.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Little
  • Old-fashioned

• The driving force for the Arabs is hatred of Israel. Hatred of the Jewish people.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • People
  • Driving
  • Hatred

• It's awesome when people respond to your movie and love it.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • People
  • Movie
  • Awesome

• My mother's proud of where she's from, and her history, and her past, and same with my dad. I have roots in Africa. Like, I am from Africa as well as from Germany, and I am very proud of that.

  

  Zendaya
  • She
  • History
  • Mother

• An inspiring word for me is to think of myself as limitless.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Think
  • Me
  • Word

• I know when I was growing up in New York, whenever I turned on the television, I never saw a face that looked like me. Whenever there was an Asian person on television, it would be a huge event, me calling to my older sister 'There's an Asian person on television!' It was unheard of back then.

  

  Yunjin Kim
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Sister

• An effeminate education weakens both the mind and the body.

  

  Edgar Quinet
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Body

• Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Action
  • Moral

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• All is interrelated. Heaven and earth, air and water. All are but one thing; not four, not two and not three, but one. Where they are not together, there is only an incomplete piece.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Together
  • Earth
  • Water

• I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

  

  John Pople
  • College
  • October

• Not all information is beneficial.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Information
  • Beneficial

• A freewheeling mind can conceive a virtually infinite number of sequences, but just how that mind picks out and stores those that may perhaps be used later to deal with a given tension, a given situation, is far beyond my understanding.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Mind
  • May
  • Understanding

• Epigenetics doesn't change the genetic code, it changes how that's read. Perfectly normal genes can result in cancer or death. Vice-versa, in the right environment, mutant genes won't be expressed. Genes are equivalent to blueprints; epigenetics is the contractor. They change the assembly, the structure.

  

  Bruce Lipton
  • Death
  • Environment
  • Cancer

• I think that when you carry a certain kind of energy, if you have, like, a funky energy that you hold within yourself, you just can't grow.

  

  Ciara
  • Energy

• We are more easily led part by part to an understanding of the whole.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Understanding
  • Whole