Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
-
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.
-
I would if I could. Coal mining was the best job I ever had.
-
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.
-
As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
-
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.
-
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.
-
It’s pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.
-
I receive Thee ransom of my soul. For love of Thee have I studied and kept vigil toiled preached and taught.
-
Persistent people are able to visualize the idea of light at the end of the tunnel when others can't see it
-
So tutor youth that the sins of age be not imputed to thee.
-
I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick.
-
In a world where thrushes sing and willow trees are golden in the spring, boredom should have been included among the seven deadly sins.
-
He sins not, who is not wilfully a sinner.
