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

• 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

• Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

  

  William Golding
  • Cutting
  • Throat
  • Pigs

• The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • World
  • God
  • Children

• If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Tree
  • Christmas
  • Valentine

• The heartbrokenness of the sinner is better than the forcefulness of the obedient

  

  Abu Madyan
  • Sinner
  • Obedient

• I love cleaning. I love mopping the floor. If you need your floor mopped, I'm there.

  

  Saoirse Ronan
  • Needs
  • Cleaning
  • Mopping

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sins
  • Sinner