Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.

Seneca the Younger

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• Haiti was founded by African slaves who rose against their European masters, had a revolution, and created a new state. There is no other such event in Western history.

  

  Madison Smartt Bell
  • History
  • Revolution
  • Rose

• There are a few musicians that I know who seem on the outside like very asocial or somewhat unemotional people, people who aren't capable of emotions, and people think they're very cold inside.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Cold
  • Emotions

• Let us not sneer at the values of the World's conscience, whose indignation has already forced Hitler's fascism to retrreat.

  

  Leon Blum
  • World
  • Values
  • Fascism

• The more money you make, the more the culture already attracts you to serve it, with an aura of glitter and power, to reproduce it in even stronger ways. And you have to resist that so much if any meaningful artistic integrity is to be had.

  

  Fady Joudah
  • Money
  • Power
  • Culture

• What an old maid I'm getting to be. lacking the courage to be in love with death!

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Death
  • Courage
  • Old Maid

• We shouldn't need riot police at schools.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Police
  • Schools
  • Riot

• Truly wealth, which men spend all their lives in acquiring, is a valueless thing at the last.

  

  H. Rider Haggard
  • Men

• Sometimes I think too much, or sometimes I don't think enough as the character. Sometimes you just miss a moment, or sometimes you hear something that a character's saying that you haven't heard before and you react differently.

  

  Taissa Farmiga
  • Character

• It is great to be introspective, self analysis can be useful, but only if it results in action.

  

  Joe Sacco
  • Action
  • Self
  • Results

• A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Value
  • Successful

• The singular secret of khaddar lies in its saleability in the place of its production and use by the manufacturers themselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Secret
  • Production
  • Manufacturers

• And therefore, — since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, — I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Hate
  • Lover
  • Pleasures

• If you can say the lyrics almost like a poem and they stand up, that's a great thing. Some songs have great lyrics and I don't like the melodies, and vice versa.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Song
  • Melody
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• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• Suspect too much sweet talk but never close your mind.

  

  Seamus Heaney
  • Mind
  • Sweet
  • Suspects

• Man cannot pretend to be higher in ethics, spirituality, advancement, or civilization than other creatures and at the same time live by lower standards than the vulture or hyena.

  

  Hom Jay Dinshah
  • Time
  • Men
  • Live

• Those vices luxury and neglect of decent manners are vices of men, not of the times.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Vices