Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

Seneca the Younger

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• I think every teenager goes through their angst. People who are like, 'No, I had a perfect adolescence,' make me wonder how that is possible.

  

  Shailene Woodley
  • Teenager
  • Goes
  • Angst

• There's a reason I'm known - to bring people to Allah, to God.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • People
  • God
  • Reason

• A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Person
  • Made
  • Theory

• Religion is the fear of God, and its demonstration good works; and faith is the root of both: For without faith we cannot please God; nor can we fear what we do not believe.

  

  William Penn
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Roots

• If your feet are firmly planted on the grount you'll never be able to dance.

  

  Iris Johansen
  • Feet
  • Planted
  • Firmly

• I go too long without picking up a good book, I feel like I've done nothing useful with my life.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Life
  • Book
  • Useful

• They had their faces twisted toward their haunches and found it necessary to walk backward, because they could not see ahead of them. ...And since he wanted so to see ahead, he looks behind and walks a backward path.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • See
  • Found
  • Walks

• For stubborn souls like Lisette, death was easier than the courage it took to actually change your life.

  

  Sarah Addison Allen
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Stubborn

• I don't believe in failure, because simply by saying you've failed, you've admitted you attempted. And anyone who attempts is not a failure. Those who truly fail in my eyes are the ones who never try at all. The ones who sit on the couch and whine and moan and wait for the world to change for them.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Believe
  • Trying

• Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • Job
  • Producer
  • Title

• She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • World
  • Passion
  • Sad

• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  

  Confucius
  • Snow
  • Complain
  • Neighbor's Roof

• Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Memories
  • Blind
  • Falsehood

• Let her (Truth) and Falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse in a free and open encounter?

  

  John Milton
  • Truth
  • Falsehood
  • Grapple

• Dissembling profiteth nothing; a feigned countenance, and slightly forged externally, deceiveth but very few.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Falsehood
  • Countenance
  • Forged