Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

Seneca the Younger

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• Patience
• Patient
• Solace
• Disagreeable

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• I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.

  

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• Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.

  

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

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• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

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• Even successful musicians have had periods where people say they suck and no one likes them, even after they've had periods of great success. So I think it's like you just gotta do you and try to stay motivated. Until, you know, you decide to stay home and make spaghetti all day.

  

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• With the mega – fame came the mega – downfall – you know, with the press and everything – and at a young age, it was very stressful to me.

  

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• If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.

  

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• I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

  

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• Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

  

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• Only a dynamic and strategically-minded America, together with a unifying Europe, can jointly promote a larger and more vital West, one capable of acting as a responsible partner to the rising and increasingly assertive East.

  

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• The more you consume, the more insecure you are. It's the nature of the world.

  

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• My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.

  

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• Every film is hard work, and a few lucky people do get Oscars for what they do, and it's recognition for all that hard work on a certain level. If you didn't do the hard work, you wouldn't be standing there. On the other hand, people do a lot of hard work and don't get Oscars, so it's a mixture of glory and injustice at the same time.

  

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• You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.

  

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• I have found out one thing and that is, if you have an idea, and it is a good idea, if you only stick to it you will come out all right.

  

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• No matter how old you become, I'll always hold your hand tenderly. just like how I held it on the day that you were born. I love you, son.

  

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• Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.

  

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• There are many foolish people in the world and when a man in a rather high position puts on no frills, slaps them on the back, and tells them he'll do anything in the world for them, they are very likely to think him clever.

  

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• Sometimes when family members least deserve love, they need it most. Love is not appropriately expressed in threats, accusations, expressions of disappointment, or retaliation. Real love takes time, patience, help, and continuing performances.

  

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• Nihil tam acerbum est in quo non æquus animus solatium inveniat. There is nothing so disagreeable, that a patient mind can not find some solace for it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Patience
  • Patient