Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

Seneca the Younger

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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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• We are all hungry and thirsty for concrete images. Abstract art will have been good for one thing: to restore its exact virginity to figurative art.

  

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• Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.

  

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• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
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• When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
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• Speaking as someone who didn't go through the U.K. school system, with all the culinary baggage that entails, I am inordinately fond of custard in any shape or form.

  

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• And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.

  

  Lance Ito
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• I think that when you are on a four-inch balance beam, you don't care about laughing or smiling or waving to the crowd because you're going to be down in a second.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Care
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• If your heart is in love, you can do anything.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Heart
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• You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.

  

  Harold Prince
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• Wine is something to enjoy. We get sick and tired of people who pick it apart and talk about its 'saucy nuances.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Tired

• A man never apologizes for the fact that he has to work. He might say, 'Hey, I am so sorry my hours were long today,' but he'd never feel he has to explain the very fact that he has a career. Once I stopped apologizing, I noticed both my kids also stopped complaining and asking me 'why' I worked.

  

  Raney Aronson-Rath
  • Work
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• When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.

  

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  • Good
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• You're a hundred percent correct about our show being tops in quality.

  

  Vic Morrow
  • You
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• How many more school shootings do we need before we start talking about this as a social problem, and not merely a random collection of isolated incidents?

  

  Jackson Katz
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• Anything beats an expensive stack of paper.

  

  Larry Niven
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  • Paper
  • Expensive

• Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. So whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it. Our problems must be dealt with through partnership; progress must be shared.

  

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• Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

  

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• We in the richest societies have too many calories even as we starve for beautiful, fresh food; we have overly large houses but lack spaces that truly embody our individuality and connectedness; media surround us everywhere while we starve for authentic communication. We are offered entertainment every second of the day but lack the chance to play. In the ubiquitous world of money, we hunger for all that is intimate, personal and unique.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
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• When I look at the success of the Cisco Networking Academy program, which has reached more than 4.75 million people since 1997, I know it could have never achieved this scale without our partners. Together we provide the tools, equipment and training for our students and teachers.

  

  John T. Chambers
  • People
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• Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Fall
  • Philosophy