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

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Kids
  • Parents
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• I'm a writer. My job is to speak what - that which I think is true. If that bridges the gap, that's good. If it doesn't, that's too bad.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Good
  • Job
  • Bad

• 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

• You can experience consciousness now by experiencing the fact that you exist.

  

  Barry Long
  • Experience
  • Consciousness
  • Exist

• If someone busted into your house and robbed you, would you then forgive them if you found out they were a veteran? Of course not. So why are we forgiving McCain for selling out his country by supporting the Bush agenda?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Country
  • Why
  • House

• We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Thing
  • Forgive

• No one was perfect. But we all did the best we could. I guessed you had to forgive when you could, move on when you couldn't, and love your family and friends for who they were instead of punishing them for who they weren't.

  

  Sarah Mlynowski
  • Family
  • Love
  • Friends

• The world does not have a voice of its own. It can't tell you what it wants, what it needs. But it's yearning for something to point it in the right direction. A savior, perhaps. Save us, Chris! You must forgive me. Where have my manners gone. I don't think I've had a chance to formerly introduce myself. You may call me Bray Wyatt. But I have a thousand faces and a million names. Seducer, accuser, destroyer. I am the color red in a world full of black and white, and if you value your ability to breathe, don't get too close. Save us, Chris. Save yourself.

  

  Windham Rotunda
  • Thinking
  • Yourself
  • Breathe

• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Forgive
  • Inhuman