Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

Seneca the Younger

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• The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Over

• I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • People
  • Myself
  • Listening

• The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Night
  • Feeling
  • Never

• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Man

• Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Think
  • Late
  • Repartee

• When I was trying to come up with a stage name, I thought 'Lord' was super rad, but really masculine - ever since I was a little kid, I have been really into royals and aristocracy. So to make Lord more feminine, I just put an 'e' on the end! Some people think it's religious, but it's not.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.

  

  Larry Burns
  • Job
  • Coal
  • Mining

• And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Time
  • Spiritual
  • Spirit

• As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

  

  Antisthenes
  • Passion
  • Envious
  • Rust

• I'm always interested in craft and I was interested to see how people work. For me, it's a little like lessons at school.

  

  Jeff Goldblum
  • Interested
  • Lessons
  • People Work

• I never wanted to do on air. Because the fact that you're on air, people take shots at you for no reason, and that made me uncomfortable. So I retreated to the safety and anonymity of behind the camera.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Safety
  • Camera
  • Behind

• It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

  

  Abbi Glines
  • Death
  • Hurt
  • Protects

• The most desirable mode of education, is that which is careful that all the acquisitions of the pupil shall be preceded and accompanied by desire . . . The boy, like the man, studies because he desires it. He proceeds upon a plan of is own invention, or by which, by adopting, he has made his own. Everything bespeaks independence and inequality.

  

  William Godwin
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Study

• Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  

  Mae West
  • Great
  • Marriage
  • Ready

• Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Sex
  • Materialism

• All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • True
  • For Her

• That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

  

  Tahj Mowry
  • Character
  • Know
  • Like

• He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sins
  • Sinner