Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

Seneca the Younger

• Dominion

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Know

• Ah, passing few are they who speak, Wild, stormy month! in praise of thee; Yet though thy winds are loud and bleak, Thou art a welcome month to me. For thou, to northern lands, again The glad and glorious sun dost bring, And thou hast joined the gentle train And wear'st the gentle name of Spring.

  

  William Cullen Bryant
  • Art
  • Speak
  • Spring

• I'm an Elvis fan because it was Elvis who really got me out of Liverpool.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Fan
  • Elvis
  • Liverpool

• By the time we see that climate change is really bad, your ability to fix it is extremely limited... The carbon gets up there, but the heating effect is delayed. And then the effect of that heat on the species and ecosystem is delayed. That means that even when you turn virtuous, things are actually going to get worse for quite a while.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Time
  • Effect
  • Climate Change

• In my day we simply didn't believe that it was possible to play as well as these young fellows do. We thought that strength denied touch and that you could not consistently hit the ball both long and straight. It's been proven that you can.

  

  Byron Nelson
  • Play
  • Ball
  • Fellows

• It's very good to get through them (drugs) while you're still young and then talk about how great or bad it was for the rest of your life.

  

  Carrie Fisher
  • Young
  • Stills

• A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.

  

  Susan Sontag
  • World
  • Attention
  • Writer

• At a time when the Post Office is losing substantial revenue from the instantaneous flow of information by email and on the Internet, slowing mail service is a recipe for disaster.

  

  Bernie Sanders
  • Time
  • Service

• A muddy little stream, a village grown unfamiliar with time and trees. I turn around and retrace my way up Main Street and park and have a Coke in the confectionery store. It is run by a Greek, as it used to be, but whether the same Greek or another I would not know. He does not recognize me, nor I him. Only the smell of his place is familiar, syrupy with old delights, as if the ghost of my first banana split had come close to breathe on me.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Time
  • Trees
  • Village

• You need to know that a member of Congress who refuses to allow the minimum wage to come up for a vote made more money during last year's one-month government shutdown than a minimum wage worker makes in an entire year.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Money
  • Congress
  • Wage

• To not want to be alive is not the same thing as wanting to be dead.

  

  Binnie Kirshenbaum
  • Dead
  • Wanting

• It's just as difficult to overcome success as it is to overcome failure.

  

  William Walton
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Difficult

• Adam was created to be the friend and companion of God, he was to have dominion over all the life in the air and earth and sea, but one thing he was not to have dominion over, and that was himself.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Earth

• In Israel, death has no dominion over them With gentiles, it will be like any person – they need to die, but [God] will give them longevity. Why? Imagine that one's donkey would die, they'd lose their money. This is his servant That's why he gets a long life, to work well for this Jew. Gentiles were born only to serve us. Without that, they have no place in the world – only to serve the People of Israel.

  

  Ovadia Yosef
  • Death
  • Israel
  • Dominion

• If you want something to last forever, you treat it differently.

  

  F. Burton Howard
  • Marriage
  • Forever
  • Want Something

• Unjust dominion cannot be eternal.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Dominion