Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

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

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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

• Personal revelation, consecration of performance, attention to detail, and dependency on God-with these qualities you cannot fail.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Attention
  • Performance

• All genuinely noble women prefer truth to falsehood. As the Russians with their Czar, they are unwilling to see their idol degraded; they want to be proud of the domination they accept.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Truth
  • Proud
  • Falsehood

• Don't lies eventually lead to the truth? And don't all my stories, true or false, tend toward the same conclusion? Don't they all have the same meaning? So what does it matter whether they are true or false if, in both cases, they are significant of what I have been and what I am? Sometimes it is easier to see clearly into the liar than into the man who tells the truth. Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Meaning
  • Twilight

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Falsehood
  • Countenance
  • Forged