Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Future
  • Language
  • Moon

• Now is the age of anxiety.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Age
  • Anxiety

• I think one of the most underreported and untouted benefits of the Affordable Care Act is the real investments we are finally making in this country in prevention.

  

  Kathleen Sebelius
  • Country
  • Real

• When it comes to the mobile web, the technology industry seems to be split between two camps - native apps and HTML5 web-based apps.

  

  Om Malik
  • Technology

• I thank Manchester City for giving me the opportunity to train these amazing players.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • City

• The top 10 verbs in the English language are all irregular, even though irregular verbs make up only 3 per cent of the language.

  

  Erez Lieberman Aiden
  • Up
  • English

• I took on the sins of everybody, of a generation, really.

  

  Christine Keeler

• I want to see the birth of my baby. Hopefully it's a boy. He can play for St. John's.

  

  Jayson Williams
  • Boy
  • Baby

• Non-violence is the essence of the entire Buddha's teaching, and the practice of non-violence is the entire essence of the practice of Buddha dharma, Buddhist spirituality, in one's life.

  

  Lobsang Tenzin
  • Life
  • Violence
  • Practice

• Music, in its true essence, has got no language. You don't listen to anybody because he is black or white or because he belongs to a particular geographical region. You listen to him because you like what he does.

  

  Adnan Sami
  • Music
  • True
  • Black

• After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.

  

  John Sununu
  • Question

• I have a very quiet life. There's nothing weird.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Life
  • Weird

• In confessing a reprehensible act, I would sometimes add a still more reprehensible interpretation-and whereas I might forget my own judgments upon myself, those in whom I had confided would carefully store them against me.

  

  Kenneth Burke

• 'But,' I Dmitri Karamazov asked, 'how will man be after that? Without God and the future life? It means everything is permitted now, one can do anything?' 'Didn't you know?' he said. And he laughed. 'Everything is permitted to the intelligent man,' he said.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • God
  • Future

• God... your book is beautiful!

  

  Ken Kesey
  • God
  • Book
  • Beautiful

• Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.

  

  Epictetus
  • Ideas
  • Blame
  • Worried

• When they remain in garrison, soldiers are maintained with fear and punishment; when they are then led to war, with hope and reward.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • War
  • Hope
  • Punishment

• Science deals exclusively with things as they are in themselves.

  

  John Ruskin
  • Science
  • Deals

• I think that's why art prevails: because it helps people in a fairly intangible, magical way feel more connected to each other.

  

  Dan Mangan
  • People
  • Connected
  • Magical

• I think, therefore I doubt.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Doubt
  • I Think

• Fish and chip night was a Kumar family tradition that dated back to when Jaget was courting his wife and they used to meet in the last white English-owned fish and chip shop in Wembley on the basis that none of their relatives would go in there.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Fish
  • Relatives
  • Family Tradition

• The country needs someone with experience and determination to make tough decisions. All the money aside, it is important that Greece restore its reputation.

  

  Evangelos Venizelos
  • Country
  • Money
  • Experience

• Zeus detests above all the boasts of a proud tongue.

  

  Sophocles
  • Tongue
  • Zeus
  • Boasts

• He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Boasts
  • Pedigree