Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
Quotes to Explore
-
It does not pay a prophet to be too specific.
-
When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
-
I feel empathy for people who are trapped in a prison of self-consciousness in an uncomfortable way. We can be free, but we're so held back. So perhaps that's why I feel a duty to make my work. I feel liberated when I'm doing it, and I want other people to feel liberated through it.
-
I've never been one for crushing on famous people.
-
I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
-
My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
-
Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.
-
I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
-
I've seen a big shift, especially in my classroom, with women standing up and demanding respect. That's in every woman, whether 16, 26, 56.
-
There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent.
-
There is no evil in human affairs that has not some good mingled with it. [It., Non e male alcuno nelle cose umane che non abbia congiunto seco qualche bene.]
-
I hated high school. It was a prison.
-
The idea is not to do good because of the praise of men; but to do good because in doing good we develop godliness within us, and this being the case we shall become allied to godliness, which will in time become part and portion of our being.
-
To earn more, you must learn more.
-
Popularity is the only insult that has not yet been offered to Mr. Whistler.
-
Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.
-
Thank you for loving me For being my eyes When I couldn't see For parting my lips When I couldn?t breathe Thank you for loving me
-
In the sciences, the authority of thousands of opinions is not worth as much as one tiny spark of reason in an individual man.
-
Nothing is good in moderation. You cannot know good in anything until you have torn the heart out of it by excess.
-
Pleasure without Champagne is purely artificial.
-
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp, be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
