Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
Quotes to Explore
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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You get more insight as you get older, on everything.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.
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I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.
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I think in spring, we don't want to wear makeup, we don't want to wear a ton of clothes, we just want everything to be easier.
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History furnishes thousands of examples of men who have seized occasions to accomplish results deemed impossible by those less resolute. Prompt decision and whole-souled action sweep the world before them.
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I'm a writer first and a singer second.
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Small habits well pursued betimesMay reach the dignity of crimes.
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The will of the people is the best law.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.
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The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.
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Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.
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My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.
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I've worked myself to exhaustion before. I was so young, and I thought I could do everything; it was just too much for my body and my mind.
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Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.
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The real trouble with war modern war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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Where suspicion fills the air and holds scholars in line for fear of their jobs, there can be no exercise of the free intellect. Supineness and dogmatism take the place of inquiry. A problem can no longer be pursued to its edges. Fear stalks the classroom. The teacher is no longer a stimulant to adventurous thinking; she becomes instead a pipe line for safe and sound information. A deadening dogma takes the place of free inquiry. Instruction tends to become sterile; pursuit of knowledge is discouraged; discussion often leaves off where it should begin.
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The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.
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Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable.
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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.
