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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• There's almost nothing you can't do with a cashew. Not only does it lend its nutty sweetness to savory dishes, it also gives desserts a deep richness.

  

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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.

  

  Gabriel Ba
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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.

  

  Tom Stoppard
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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.

  

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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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• Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, respect me, I'm a respectable grown-up, and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.

  

  Wendy Wasserstein
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• I don't mind being recognised, as long as people are nice. I do like meeting people; it's just that some people are a bit disrespectful... Sometimes it's like, I'm having a roast dinner, and someone's taking a picture of me. I don't mind taking pictures, but just ask. Otherwise, it's a bit weird.

  

  Rory Charles Graham
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• Certainly, for time out of mind, an obsessive dwelling on happier former days has been synonymous with getting older, while it was the juvenescent who rushed with open arms to embrace the future.

  

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• It is much simpler and easier to collect and caress the trophies of our democratic inheritance than it is to fashion up-to-date tools with which to work on our current problems.

  

  Charles Ferguson
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• Tis the night – the night Of the grave’s delight, And the warlocks are at their play; Ye think that without, The wild winds shout, But no, it is they – it is they!

  

  Arthur Cleveland Coxe
  • Night
  • Play
  • Delight

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

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Delight
  • Disregarded