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

• I support the Surfrider Foundation, which is focused on protecting the oceans and beaches. I also recycle and use mass transit, ride my bike as often as I can, or I walk, which is one of the best parts about living in New York City.

  

  Raquel Zimmermann
  • Focused
  • Protecting
  • Beaches

• My trainer taught me, because he's Iranian, and that's a beautiful snack pistachios. I have some with me, actually, in my bag. You could eat that on a plane instead of the salted nuts. And a serving size a day is the size of your hand, not the size of your head!

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Beautiful
  • Trainers

• It's what's available to the poor communities. They do buy healthy stuff, you know, but the lettuce is usually iceberg lettuce and to get any taste, they have to use all that ranch dressing.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
  • Community
  • Healthy
  • Poor

• If true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Animal
  • Teach
  • Loss

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Master
  • Ashamed
  • Servitude