Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

Seneca the Younger

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• They are more like artistic names. Bá is a nickname. It's short for Gá. When I learned to spell letters and words, instead of calling him Gabriel [Ba], I called him Babio. People call him Gá and I call him Bá. So Bá is a nickname.

  

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• No matter how bad things are, they could always be worse. Start finding gratitude for what might have happened, but didn't.

  

  Mac Anderson
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• An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

  

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• I don't work with an outline, except a vague one in my head, a general idea of character, place, arc... I'm like a composer with a symphony in their head: I can hear the music, I just have to figure out how to put it down on paper. But I don't always know where my stories are going when I begin.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
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• Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• I'm not comfortable with walking the red carpet in a tuxedo and seeing all the women with their boobs pushed up and all the men dressed as penguins - particularly when the subject of your film is the nature of violence and humanity.

  

  William Hurt
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• In the face of unjust criticism we can become bitter or better; upset or understanding; hostile or humble; furious or forgiving.

  

  William Arthur Ward
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• He who wants, but doesn't act, is a pest.

  

  William Blake
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• Life should serve up its feast of experience in a series of courses.

  

  William Golding
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• The house was immaculate, as always, not a stray hair anywhere, not a flake of dandruff or a crumpled towel. Even the roses on the dining-room table held their breath. A kind of airless cleanliness that always made me want to sneeze.

  

  Sandra Cisneros
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• Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Nature
  • Here
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• The greatest delight which the fields and woods minister is the suggestion of an occult relation.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Greatest
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• I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.

  

  Daniel Boone
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• He is his own best friend and takes delight in privacy whereas the man of no virtue or ability is his own worst enemy and is afraid of solitude.

  

  Aristotle
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• If, for you, orthodox means finally “getting it right” or “getting it straight,” mine is a pretty disappointing, curvy orthodoxy. But if, for you, orthodoxy isn’t a list of correct doctrines, but rather the doxa in orthodoxy, which means “thinking” or “opinion,” then the lifelong pursuit of expanding thinking and deepening, broadening opinions about God sounds like a delight, a joy.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Joy
  • Delight
  • Orthodox

• That which we are not permitted to have we delight in; that which we can have is disregarded.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Delight
  • Disregarded