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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

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

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • True
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• Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Time
  • God
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• 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
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• To live On means not yours--be brave in silks and laces, Gallant in steeds; splendid in banquets; all Not yours. Given, uninherited, unpaid for; This is to be a trickster; and to filch Men's art and labour, which to them is wealth, Life, daily bread;--quitting all scores with "friend, You're troublesome!" Why this, forgive me, Is what, when done with a less dainty grace, Plain folks call "Theft.

  

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
  • Life
  • Art
  • Friend

• Everyone looks adorable singing with James Corden.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Singing
  • Looks
  • Everyone

• To forgive all is as inhuman as to forgive none

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Forgive
  • Inhuman