Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've known a lot of cowboys and a few cowgirls. They're, by and large, some of the smartest, funniest, most courteous, generous, and hardest-working people you'd ever want to know.
-
No man can visualize four dimensions, except mathematically … I think in four dimensions, but only abstractly. The human mind can picture these dimensions no more than it can envisage electricity. Nevertheless, they are no less real than electro-magnetism, the force which controls our universe, within, and by which we have our being.
-
I think I always had a musicality, and I think I could tell a good song from a bad song. And I would appreciate hearing something that was new to me.
-
There are countless studies on the negative spillover of job pressures on family life, but few on how job satisfaction enhances the quality of family life.
-
Definitions must contain the means of reaching a decision in a finite number off steps, and existence proofs must be conducted so that the quantity in question can be calculated with any degree of accuracy.
-
She had a body that even I coveted in a strictly Platonic sense.
-
The fashion industry is no more able to preserve a style that men and women have decided to abandon than to introduce one they do not choose to accept.
-
What stays with me most is a general sense of loss, unease, and longing for the past that cannot be relieved.
-
There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.
-
O Divine Providence, I ask not for more riches but more wisdom with which to make wiser use of the riches you gave me at birth, consisting in the power to control and direct my own mind to whatever ends I might desire.
-
I want to be with people who submerge in the task, who go into the fields to harvest and work in a row and pass the bags along, who are not parlor generals and field deserters but move in a common rhythm when the food must come in or the fire be put out. The work of the world is common as mud. Botched, it smears the hands, crumbles to dust. But the thing worth doing well done has a shape that satisfies, clean and evident.
-
Seventy per cent of all patients who come to physicians could cure themselves if they got rid of their fears and worries.
-
Vanity is a silly thing to be obsessed with because... it sounds cliché but it leads you to emptiness; it goes away.
-
The promises of maniacs, like those of women, are not safely relied upon.
-
I'm a hip-hop kind of guy, but to be honest with you, I could listen to R&B all day. Give me some slow jams, and I'm a happy person.
-
The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.
-
The bounty of nature is too little for the greedy person.
