Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

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• We ended up with some pretty good quality videos for next to nothing. We just thought it would be interesting to put WAV files on a DVD and let people burn CDs if they want. CDs are so expensive. I can't remember the last time I bought a new CD.

  

  Sam Brown
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Am I not ninja enough? Are you saying that I lack ninja?

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Ninja

• When Western Europe needed defense, along with the United States, it looked to Turkey for that defense on its eastern flank against the then-Soviet Union, ... No issues were then raised that it had an Islamic majority.

  

  Jack Straw
  • United States
  • Islamic
  • Defense

• Possibly the most interesting first impression of my life came from the world of dreams.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Life
  • World
  • Dream

• I have only hated men at those moments when I realized that I was doing all the giving and they the taking. At least when I was a prostitute, it was all honest and upfront.

  

  Xaviera Hollander
  • Men
  • Giving
  • Moments

• In music, in the sea, in a flower, in a leaf, in an act of kindness... I see what people call God in all these things.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • People
  • Music
  • God

• No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

  

  Umar
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• You don't even have to be the one praying, but if you get around somebody who really know how to pray-prayer will lift you when you've fallen, prayer will catch you when you've lost your grip, prayer will stop you from going overboard, prayer will bring you out!

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Lost
  • Stop
  • Prayer

• All conflict can be traced back to someone's feelings getting hurt, don't you think?

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Hurt
  • Feelings
  • Conflict

• The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members.

  

  Oscar Wilde
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• Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it's not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
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• Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

  

  Earl Blaik
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  • Golf

• People seldom realize that they tell lies with their lips and truths with their eyes all the time.

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • People
  • Time
  • Eyes

• Have love for your friend up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your enemy some day; and hate your enemy up to a limit for it is possible he may turn into your friend some day.

  

  Bill Vaughan
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• That's the most memorable one, but it's not the most fun to remember.

  

  Dick Trickle
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• Listen, I'm not cool. Being cool is about keeping your blood pressure steady. So no. Don't be cool. Be passionate. Be dedicated. Be tenacious. Be uncompromising. Be pissed. Be happy. Be sad.

  

  Justin Timberlake NSYNC
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• We try to live by the secret of sevens. A friend, who has been married for over 40 years, told us about this magic. Make and keep a date every seven days, take a night away alone, for yourself, every seven weeks, and schedule an adult-only vacation every seven months.

  

  Summer Sanders
  • Live
  • Night
  • Alone

• It is not impossible to suppose that in this case our luminary was taken in the act.

  

  Balfour Stewart
  • Taken

• Didn't we, like our grandchildren, begin with a childhood we thought would never end? Now, all of a sudden, I'm older than my parents were when I thought they were old.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Parents
  • Childhood
  • Parent

• In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired it.

  

  David Ormsby-Gore, 5th Baron Harlech
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• The problem with love and God, the two of them, is how to say anything about them that doesn’t annihilate them instantly with the wrong words, with untruth. . . . In this sense, love and God are equivalents. We feel both, but because we cannot speak clearly about them, we end up–wordless, inarticulate—by denying their existence altogether, and, pfffffft, they die.

  

  Charles Baxter
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• [W]e declare it is a grievous sin before God to adopt restrictive measures in disobedience to God's divine command from the beginning of time to 'multiply and replenish the earth.' Surely those who project such measures to prevent life or to destroy life before or after birth will reap the whirlwind of God's retribution, for God will not be mocked.

  

  Harold B. Lee
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Prudence and love cannot be mixed; you can end love, but never moderate it.

  

  Seneca the Younger
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