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

• Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang with lions because lions eat wildebeests. Human beings are like that. We do what that group does that we're trying to identify with.

  

  Dan Phillips
  • Trying
  • Together
  • Group

• If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Society
  • Inaction
  • Lordship

• A wise man has dignity without pride; a fool has pride without dignity.

  

  Confucius
  • Pride
  • Fool
  • Wise Man

• A wise man does not trust all his eggs to one basket.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Trust
  • Wise Man
  • Eggs

• There is nothing the wise man does reluctantly.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wise Man