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

  

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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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  • 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.

  

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  

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

  

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• 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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• I frequently hear music in the heart of noise.

  

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• Of what is't fools make such vain keeping?Sin their conception, their birth, weeping:Their life, a general mist of error,Their death, a hideous storm of terror.

  

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• People want sex education out of the schools. They believe sex education causes promiscuity. Hey, I took algebra, but I never do math.

  

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• It was going to be the 10-year anniversary, i remember a year ago I was like, This is too appetizing for the media. Theyre going to do something. This is the time when everyone comes out of the woodwork, the same cast, the same characters that have been discredited throughout the years. They have a platform now to talk about Michael Jackson.

  

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• Oh yes, We've all danced to this particular tune at one time in our lives. In my experience, the majority of women are hopeless romantics, believing that, in time, he'll realise how wonderful we are, and fall in love with us....

  

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• 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