Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
Seneca the Younger
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Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.
Caleb Carr
As a symbol of love it does not quite work for her, since its overwhelming beauty demands a passive response that is irritating to the adventurous.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
His (Deschamps’) complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.
Barbara W. Tuchman
Fair Elphin, dry your cheeks! Such sorrow does not become you, Although you consider yourself cheated Excessive sorrow gains nothing, Nor will doubting God's miracles.
Taliesin
Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
T. E. Hulme
For me, being a lawyer means to help those in need.
Joe Jamail
I have learned some core lessons along the way. Among the most important, I have become a firm believer that a strong geopolitical relationship can be born out of a strong economic relationship, which often begins with trade.
Max Baucus
In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
V. S. Naipaul
Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.
Marianne Williamson
O, popular applause! what heart of man is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?
William Cowper
I wish I had a hundred years, she said, very quietly. A hundred years I could give to you.
Patrick Ness
The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance.
Seneca the Younger
