Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

Seneca the Younger

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• Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

  

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• I always feel that most people out there who aren't sure if the gym is really for them aren't prepared to pay and find out.

  

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• I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.

  

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• Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.

  

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• Life at a public company ain't for me. The board pays you what you're worth, then you get reamed for your compensation.

  

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  • Life
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• I'm not a materialistic person.

  

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• I'd say I'm quite powerful so I'm not afraid of jumps or acrobatic elements. The hardest part is... get on the beam and stay there on top of it!

  

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  • Powerful
  • Say
  • Afraid

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

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  • Used
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• Then, in the next place, we must know that every being which is endowed with reason, and transgresses its statutes and limitations, is undoubtedly involved in sin by swerving from rectitude and justice.

  

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• I love food: biscuits and gravy, cheese grits, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken-fried steak with white gravy... but my favorite dish is my wife's beanie weenie cornbread casserole. It's so good. It sounds stupid, but if you eat it, it's heaven. Of course, it's only something you can eat if you've got a lot of money.

  

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  • Good
  • Money
  • Food

• Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  

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  • Real
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• It's hard to write haiku. I write long, silly Indian poems.

  

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  • Long
  • Write
  • Silly

• Compassion is loving others enough to say or do what is appropriate from an empowered heart without attachment to the outcome.

  

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• With art and the work you do, it has to be constantly dictated by what you're feeling and where you want to go with it.

  

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• From the union of power and money, from the union of power and secrecy, from the union of government and science, from the union of government and art, from the union of science and money, from the union of ambition and ignorance, from the union of genius and war, from the union of outer space and inner vacuity, the Mad Farmer walks quietly away.

  

  Wendell Berry
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  • Power

• Pepsi and Coke have to co-exist on the shelf for the long term because if they pull each other down, no one's going to drink carbonated soft drinks anymore.

  

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  • Long

• I have two incredible sisters who have very high-powered jobs and kids and, you know, both have their master's; one runs triathlons all the time.

  

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  • High

• Yes, I realize that I see but a semblance, but so do you, and who is to say which is real?

  

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  • Real

• Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

  

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  • People

• And Prince Bismarck was even more specific. One third, he said, of the students of German universities broke down from overwork, another third broked down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.

  

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  • Prince
  • German

• Nothing is more disgraceful than that an old man should have nothing to show to prove that he has lived long, except his years.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Long
  • Should