Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

Seneca the Younger

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• The working environment in L.A. is really refreshing, really good. Because in Malaysia, it's a small country - you end up working with the same people that you like and that you know.

  

  Yuna
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Money
  • Power
  • Limits

• We are perverse creatures and never satisfied.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Never
  • Creatures
  • Satisfied

• The worst I think that I ever was, when 'Unforgettable' had come out, and not long after that I was on - I was on my way to my second divorce. And that was a crushing, crushing blow.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Long
  • Think
  • Blow

• The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • English
  • End
  • Personal

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• I'm a very restless person. I'm always doing something. The creative process never stops.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Doing
  • Creative
  • Process

• All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • People
  • Pretty
  • Over

• I'm a '90s baby.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Baby

• That was my challenge as an actress: to be a necessary part of the office without being too aggressive.

  

  Barbara Hale
  • Challenge
  • Without
  • Actress

• I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • Family
  • Over
  • Wealthy

• I always thought that you breathe, you eat, you go to sleep, and you draw.

  

  Paloma Picasso
  • Sleep
  • Thought
  • Breathe

• As soon as, say, Saddam Hussein started bombing Israel with Scuds, everyone was like, 'Poor Israel.' But when Israel retaliates - and most of the time they then win - people turn against them.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • People
  • Time
  • Win

• The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Small

• I didn't necessarily grow up in a trailer park, but there is a brief part of that in my life. So I can make fun of it a little bit. I'm not too much of an outsider, where I'm just making fun of someone.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Life
  • Up
  • Fun

• I have a wife and two boys. One is 18 and the other is 14. The 18-year old is getting ready for college next year and he made a decision to run track. He runs a lot like Michael Johnson.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • College
  • Wife
  • Decision

• If I was 14 or 15 again, I would do the same thing. I've done everything. I think I've accomplished more than I had in mind.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Mind
  • Done
  • Think

• I believe in order to make a friend, you have to be a friend.

  

  Weili Dai
  • Believe
  • Friend
  • I Believe

• In obedience to humanity, the King of the universe come down from heaven! In obedience to humanity, he lives imprisoned on the altar! I shall not resist. He allows humans to keep him wherever they wish-in monstrance or tabernacle; to carry him in procession; to bring him into the homes of the sick and dying; to dispense him to all, whether saint or sinner. The gospel tells how marvelously he obeyed Mary and Joseph. Today he obeys every priest in the world.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • World
  • Today
  • Wish

• Quelque e tendue d'esprit que l'on ait, l'on n'est capable que d'une grande passion. However vast a man's spirit, he is only capable of one great passion.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Passion
  • Spirit
  • Vast

• We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Work
  • Planning
  • Plan

• Our view is that younger customers love our digital offering, our mobile banking applications and so on. Older customers expect relationship managers and want much more personal attention in terms of their needs.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Love
  • Relationship
  • Attention

• A worker in the rural reconstruction must have: The body of an athlete The attitude of a teacher The mind of a scientist The heart of a missionary The spirit of a crusader.

  

  Y. C. James Yen
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Teacher

• He that lays down precepts for the governing of our lives, and moderating our passions, obliges humanity not only in the present, but in all future generations.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Passion
  • Humanity
  • Generations