Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

Seneca the Younger

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• If I had one golf course, from a design standpoint, one that I really love, it would probably be Pinehurst. There's a totally tree-lined golf course where trees are not a part of the strategy.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
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• What was really tough for me was that Lars Magnus Ericsson founded Ericsson in 1876; we've always had a consumer product. And I'm the 16th CEO of Ericsson, and I decided that we don't have any consumer products anymore.

  

  Hans Vestberg
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• I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

  

  Larry David
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• I take it a little bit hard on myself because I'm comparing myself a lot, and that's the kind of person I am because I'm so competitive, but it's also good, because I am competitive, so it kind of kicks you in the butt.

  

  Nastia Liukin
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• His gaze brushed over her, abstract and hungry. "You burn so very brightly, you know" "Yeah," she muttered. "You said.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • She
  • Hungry
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• I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

  

  Carl Andre
  • Study
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• I think as a student I ended up liking so many different and conflicting things.

  

  Wade Guyton
  • Up
  • Different
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• To me, my recipes are priceless.

  

  Colonel Sanders
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• I hate motorcycles. Because if I hit one, even if it's not my fault, if I've done nothing wrong, I'm not charged with manslaughter, he's gonna die, because he's on a motorcycle. So I have to live my life knowing that I killed this guy.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Life
  • Live
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• The boundless capacity of the African American spirit in this country to say Hallelujah anyhow, to use our joy as a weapon, to use our creativity as a weapon, to use our moral clarity and our deep experience as a weapon not just to save Black people but to save all of these people.

  

  Van Jones
  • People
  • Country
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• Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!

  

  Prince William
  • Trying
  • Art
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• We just kept waiting and waiting and waiting but never did see a sense of urgency from Washington.

  

  Janet Napolitano
  • Waiting
  • Washington
  • Sense Of Ugrency

• I would like to propose a toast to a great president of the United States, and a great leader of the free world, ... And good luck, Bill.

  

  Jean Chretien
  • President
  • United States
  • Propose

• I want to express my personal commitment to continue to strive for a positive contribution of the European Union to lasting peace in the region.

  

  Javier Solana
  • Commitment
  • Contribution
  • European Union

• The most common misconception people have had in the past is about my own control and calculation of my career.

  

  George Michael
  • People
  • Career
  • Misconception

• Beauty is all about us, but how many are blind! They look at the wonder of this earth and seem to see nothing. People move hectically but give little thought to where they are going. They seek excitement ... as if they were lost and desperate.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • People
  • Earth
  • Lost

• Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

  

  Henry James Sumner Maine
  • Sometimes
  • Doubt
  • Authority

• It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.

  

  Ernest Rutherford
  • Helping
  • Interest
  • Lord

• Accept disgrace willingly... Accept being unimportant... Surrender yourself humbly; then you can be trusted to care for all things. Love the world as your own self; then you can truly care for all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Love
  • Accept
  • Surrender

• The most imperious masters over their own servants are at the same time the most abject slaves to the servants of others.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Slave
  • Masters
  • Tyranny