Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

Seneca the Younger

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• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• If two people cannot live together, both should have the right to opt out of the marriage. In an ideal world, that would be an acceptable solution.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• I am not a sun person at all. I think it's a cancerous poison and I don't want it touching me.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Sun
  • Poison
  • Cancerous

• I consciously decided not to be a 'London' actor. Those gangster movies made a lot of East End actors think they were movie stars. And I was very aware that they were going to go out of fashion.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Movie
  • Fashion
  • End

• I would have never gotten to college if it hadn't been for getting up at 4 A.M. and milking them Holsteins.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Up
  • College
  • Never

• I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Guilt
  • Whatever
  • Happily

• When you have very lax parents, you tend to get more conservative kids.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • You

• I try and eat really healthy when I'm home, but I certainly don't eat worms and snakes.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Home
  • Try
  • Healthy

• We're always writing music no matter what. And we're not always acting - we have months off. But we never take a break from songwriting.

  

  Alex Wolff
  • Music
  • Writing

• And at times I'm tempted to think that our way and the Kirk's way is not God's way, for we're apt to treat the natural man as altogether corrupt, and put him under over-strict pains and penalties, whereas there's matter in him that might be shaped to the purposes of grace. If there's original sin, there's likewise original innocemce.

  

  John Buchan
  • God

• That just proves I wasn't in the wrong, and that's what this is all about. Yeah, you try to represent the game the right way, but then being told you're in the wrong for reacting to something you didn't start, that's kind of disturbing. That just makes me feel like it's a hypocritical society.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Game
  • Society
  • Hypocritical

• Trying to be fascinating is an asinine position to be in.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Trying
  • Position
  • Fascinating

• One senses that, in these conditions, no amount of wet-wiping could bring true hygiene.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • True
  • Travel
  • Senses

• Quoth the Ocean, "Dawn! O fairest, clearest, Touch me with thy golden fingers bland; For I have no smile till thou appearest For the lovely land.

  

  Jean Ingelow
  • Ocean
  • Fingers
  • Golden

• As they say of the blind, Sounds are the things I see.

  

  Sophocles
  • Things
  • Blind
  • Sounds

• The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Sacrifice
  • Requires
  • Magnitude

• But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Truth
  • Conclusions
  • Addicted

• People are looking for a way to take action, to do something other than donate on the Turnpike on their way to work, which seems impersonal.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • People
  • Work
  • Action

• The mountain at a given distance In amber lies; Approached, the amber flits a little,-- And that's the skies!

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Lies
  • Distance
  • Mountain

• I can forgive the body breaking down. It's a little tougher to forgive that mental lapse.

  

  Hale Irwin
  • Body
  • Down
  • Forgive

• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Forgive
  • Inhuman