Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

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

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• When money functions as measure of value it must truly represent the values it helps to circulate.

  

  David Harvey
  • Money
  • Value

• And deep in my heart. The answer, it was in me. And I made up my mind. To define my own destiny

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Heart

• 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

• A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between work and play.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • Work
  • Art
  • Play

• 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
  • Future
  • Past
  • Worry

• 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

• If you want your life to be a small part of eternity, to be lucid even in the heart of madness, love... Love with all your strength, love as though it is all you know how to do, love enough to make the gods themselves jealous... for it is in love that all ugliness reveals its beauty.

  

  Yasmina Khadra
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Small

• 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
  • Society
  • Healthy
  • Intelligence

• 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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  • Success
  • Failure

• Golf has humbled, humiliated, and just about licked all the great athletes who tried it.

  

  Earl Blaik
  • Great
  • Golf

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

  

  Tahereh Mafi
  • People
  • Time
  • Eyes

• I never know how to worship until I know how to love; and to love I must have something that I can put my arms around, — something that, touching my heart, shall leave not the chill of ice, but the warmth of summer.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Worship

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• ...virtue is not merely a state in conformity with the right principle, but one that implies the right principle; and the right principle in moral conduct is prudence.

  

  Aristotle
  • Moral
  • Virtue
  • Principle

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
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