Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

Seneca the Younger

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• The intellectual, the man of thought, doubt and analysis, should give the best of himself.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • Man
  • Best
  • Doubt

• I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Painting
  • New York
  • Paris

• Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Life
  • Different
  • Picture

• Facetiousness is allowable when it is the most proper instrument of exposing things apparently base and vile to due contempt.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Things
  • Instrument
  • Contempt

• I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Times
  • Many
  • Performed

• My grandfather allowed as how I might even live long enough to see a Mars landing. I haven't, of course, except in fiction, including my own, and strongly doubt that I ever will.

  

  Pamela Sargent
  • Long
  • Live
  • Doubt

• Even a fool knows you can't touch the stars, but it won't keep the wise from trying.

  

  Harry Anderson
  • Trying
  • Wise
  • Fool

• Behind every easy role, there is a lot of hard work that goes in.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Work
  • Easy
  • Hard Work

• As a working mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a stay-at-home mother, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself. As a twenty something with no job prospects or life partner in sight, the last thing you need is to be hard on yourself.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Life
  • Home
  • Job

• A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Hope
  • Team
  • Fire

• The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They have a very public role there.

  

  Edmund White
  • Different
  • Want
  • Talk

• Being on 'The Following' is constantly flying by the seat of my pants. The story can change and the character can change at a moment's notice.

  

  Valorie Curry
  • Character
  • Change
  • Moment

• You can't expect to hit the jackpot if you don't put a few nickels in the machine.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • You
  • Motivational
  • Machine

• I write about heartbreak because I like writing about sad things, but I'm writing happy songs, too!

  

  Jackie Evancho
  • Writing
  • Happy
  • Sad

• Just because something is three months away and seems far off, doesn't mean you will want to be there when the time comes.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Want
  • Three

• When one has not father, or mother, or brother, and all one's friends have barely bread enough for themselves, life cannot be very easy, nor its crusts very many at any time.

  

  Ouida
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• What is nonmeasurable and nonpredictable will remain nonmeasurable and nonpredictable ... no matter how much hate mail I get.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Hate

• Life is made up of constant calls to action, and we seldom have time for more than hastily contrived answers.

  

  Learned Hand
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The truth is that I have lived on an even keel. I don't go down, and I don't go up. I believe in living above the line. Above the line is happiness and love, you know. Below the line is all sadness and destruction and unhappiness. And I don't go down below the line for anything.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Truth

• In songbirds, it is generally the male of the species that sings, and for some species, the larger the repertoire, the more likely it is to attract a mate.

  

  Daniel Levitin

• 'If you have not tasted poverty, you will not be able to manage blessing when it comes. If you have not tasted humiliation, you will not be able to manage honour when it comes.'

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Poverty

• Through decentralized cryptography, Bitcoin eliminates the need for banking intermediaries, significantly lowering transaction costs, and could liberate poverty-stricken economies around the globe by providing access to capital to the one-third of humanity that is excluded from the financial world.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Poverty
  • Humble
  • Praise