Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

Seneca the Younger

• Art
• Girl
• Pain
• Bears
• Scorned
• Gout

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• General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Military
  • Place
  • Impossible

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• I have a sidekick, Keith Robinson, who's very funny. I've known Keith for over 20 years; he's my best friend.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Funny
  • Friend
  • Best

• All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • American
  • Today
  • Problems

• I placed my new novel, 'The Book of Lost Fragrances', in Paris, knowing it would be a challenge. But the book belonged in the city that is one of the greatest perfume capitals of the world and has been since for more than three centuries.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • World
  • Book
  • Lost

• The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.

  

  Sallust
  • Beauty
  • Wealth
  • Intellectual

• I've had a few ditty hits.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Had
  • Few
  • Hits

• I offer originality: you don't know what my films are like until you go to them. I think that's the reason I've been getting all this attention.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Think
  • Know
  • Attention

• What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • People
  • World
  • Bad

• The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Me
  • Woman
  • Interest

• In some causes silence is dangerous.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Silence
  • Dangerous
  • Some

• When you're trying to accomplish lofty goals, and when you're attacking something of great magnitude, you have to have help.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Help

• When I started out in the industry I was 14 and a beanpole, but over the last few years I've grown. For the most part I feel pretty OK with how I look. I know I'm different from the typical Hollywood ideal of what is beautiful. But quite frankly I don't think that's attainable, and I'm happy to represent something different.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Think

• I was born in California. When I was six, we moved to a small town in northern Indiana called Mishawaka.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Small
  • Born
  • California

• I am a big Seth Rollins fan and have been for a long period of time.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Fan
  • Seth Rollins

• I go to temple a lot less than I would like because when I do, people still look at me as if they think it's a publicity stunt.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • People
  • Think
  • Me

• As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Time
  • Art
  • Interesting

• In Van Halen there were moments, like in some of the ballads, I put my heart and soul into those records. Those lyrics when I sang 'em, I gave myself goosebumps.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Moments

• Name me, if you can, a better feeling than the one you get when you've half a bottle of Chivas in the bag with a gram of coke up your nose and a teenage lovely pulling off her tube top in the next seat over while you're doing a hundred miles an hour in a suburban side street.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

• Both triumph and disaster are impostors.

  

  Rudyard Kipling
  • Disaster
  • Triumph
  • Impostors

• Let the wise one control his thoughts, for they are difficult to perceive, often elusive, and they rush about frantically: a mind well controlled achieves peace and happiness.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Happiness
  • Thoughts
  • Rush

• In my private sector career, two of my favorite sayings were, 'Strategy is easy and execution is really hard,' and that we should 'run at criticism.'

  

  John Delaney
  • Career
  • Criticism

• Meth is too easy to make, and unfortunately right now all the ingredients need to make this highly addictive drug are legal and readily available to those who want to cook it up and sell it to our children.

  

  Michael McCaul
  • Children
  • Available
  • Ingredients

• Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Art
  • Girl
  • Pain