Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

Seneca the Younger

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• Let's cooperate and challenge the administration to cooperate with us because within the administration there are also moderates and people who are not fully comfortable with the tendencies that have prevailed in recent times.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Because

• Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Love
  • Religion
  • For Him

• The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Way
  • Best
  • Yourself

• He began to search among the infinite series of impressions which time had laid down, leaf upon leaf, fold upon fold softly, incessantly upon his brain; among scents, sounds; voices, harsh, hollow, sweet; and lights passing, and brooms tapping; and the wash and hush of the sea.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Brain
  • Memories
  • Sweet

• The zeal which begins with hypocrisy must conclude in treachery at first it deceives, at last it betrays.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Hypocrisy
  • Treachery
  • Betrays

• A man with no philosophy in him is the most inauspicious and unprofitable of all possible social mates.

  

  William James
  • Men
  • Philosophy
  • Social

• I know not how I seem to others, but to myself I am but a small child wandering upon the vast shores of knowledge, every now and then finding a small bright pebble to content myself with while the vast ocean of undiscovered truth lay before me.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Knowledge
  • Child
  • Wandering

• O, call back yesterday, bid time return

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Time
  • Return
  • Yesterday

• I don't do stunts - I do running, jumping and falling down. After 25 years I know exactly what I'm doing.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Running
  • Jumping
  • Stunts

• Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Truth
  • Road
  • Goals

• Money is the only substance which can keep a cold world from nicknaming a citizen Hey, you

  

  Wilson Mizner
  • World
  • Cold

• I didn't want to look like anyone else - like Janis Joplin or Grace Slick. That's why I never went to any of the big designers.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Designers
  • Went
  • Look Like

• ... being perpetually charmed by his familiar siren, that is, by his geometry, he neglected to eat and drink and took no care of his person; that he was often carried by force to the baths, and when there he would trace geometrical figures in the ashes of the fire, and with his finger draws lines upon his body when it was anointed with oil, being in a state of great ecstasy and divinely possessed by his science.

  

  Plutarch
  • Science
  • Force
  • Geometry

• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity.

  

  Sophocles
  • Opinions
  • Wise Man
  • Pronouncements

• Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Write
  • Passions
  • Wise Man

• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wise Man