Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'm really good at making teen angst romantic. I'm really good at dealing with heartbreak and things like that and making it into this whole experience. But there's no way to make someone-on-the-Internet-said-something-mean-about-me into romantic angst where you can listen to music and cry or whatever.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Beauty
  • Makeup
  • High Heels

• Poverty itself is not so bad as the poverty thought. It is the conviction that we are poor and must remain so that is fatal.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Bad
  • Thought
  • Poverty

• I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.

  

  Maksim Chmerkovskiy
  • Country
  • Remember
  • Determination

• Jazz is the art of thinking out loud.

  

  Barbara Januszkiewicz
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Jazz

• How high can bitcoin go? The real question is how low can the dollar go?

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Real
  • High
  • Question

• Every small town has its dramatic group, its barber-shop quartet, every home has music in one form or another.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Music
  • Home
  • Small

• The loves and hours of the life of a man, They are swift and sad, being born of the sea. Hours that rejoice and regret for a span, Born with a man's breath, mortal as he; Loves that are lost ere they come to birth, Weeds of the wave, without fruit upon earth. I lose what I long for, save what I can, My love, my love, and no love for me!

  

  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Life
  • Long
  • Earth

• We have had a great depression in agriculture, caused mainly by several seasons of bad harvests, and some of our traders have suffered much from a too rapid extension in prosperous years.

  

  John Bright
  • Great
  • Bad
  • Depression

• Why, flowers are violent, cruel, terrible and splendid... like love!

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Why
  • Terrible
  • Flowers

• Whatever you read, read the Bible first. Beware of bad books: there are plenty in this day. Take heed what you read.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Book
  • Bad
  • Bible

• ...art is something subversive. It's something that should not be free. Art and liberty, like the fire of Prometheus, are things that one must steal, to be used against the established order.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I spent several years in the film finance business, but I returned to what I loved most about the industry - actual filmmaking, producing, writing and directing.

  

  Gabriel Campisi
  • Writing
  • Business
  • Film

• You've got to make a lot of sacrifices and spend a lot of time if you really want to achieve with this sport, or in any sport, or in anything truly worthwhile.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Time
  • Sport
  • Worthwhile

• Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Time
  • Important
  • Education

• The fact of the matter is, that mistakes are really important way to learn...

  

  Mark Frauenfelder
  • Important
  • Way
  • Mistake

• Or they'll put posters up saying pizza is the biggest source of tomato sauce in the American diet.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Up
  • American
  • Source

• Flattery makes fools of the best of us.

  

  Dorothy Salisbury Davis
  • Best
  • Fools
  • Flattery

• Most of the world's religions serve only to strengthen attachments to false concepts such as self and other, life and death, heaven and earth, and so on. Those who become entangled in these false ideas are prevented from perceiving the Integral Oneness.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Death
  • Heaven
  • Religions

• As a camel kneels before his master to have him remove his burden at the end of the day, so kneel each night and let the Master take your burden.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Night
  • Master
  • Burden

• Two such as you with such a master speed, cannot be parted nor be swept away, from one another once you are agreed, that life is only life forevermore, together wing to wing and oar to oar.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Life
  • Together
  • Master

• The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'

  

  Confucius
  • Songs
  • Master
  • Teachings

• The Master keeps her mind always at one with the Tao; that is what gives her her radiance. The Tao is ungraspable. How can her mind be at one with it? Because she doesn't cling to ideas. The Tao is dark and unfathomable. How can it make her radiant? Because she lets it. Since before time and space were, the Tao is. It is beyond is and is not. How do I know this is true? I look inside myself and see.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Space
  • Ideas
  • Master

• I am ashamed of my master and not of my servitude.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Master
  • Ashamed
  • Servitude