Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I rest not from my great task! | To open the Eternal Worlds, | to open the immortal Eyes of Man | Inwards into the Worlds of Thought; | Into eternity, ever expanding | In the Bosom of God, | The Human Imagination
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Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.
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Take a film of Jacques Tati like Mon Oncle which has something quite new - for me, unique - in it.
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The road to Hades is easy to travel; at any rate men pass away with their eyes shut.
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I am so infinitely happy that he loves me so much, and I pray that it will always be like this. It won't be my fault if he ever stops loving me.
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A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.
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The radical power of 'queer' always came from its inclusivity. But that inclusivity offers a false promise of equality that does not translate to the lived reality of most queer people.
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The reason so many of us are obsessed with becoming stars is because we are not yet starring in our own lives. The cosmic spotlight isn’t pointed at you, it radiates from within you.
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The reason social media is so difficult for most organizations: It’s a process, not an event.
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Clear, and compassionate, this collection illuminates the problems and opportunities that flowed from Christchurch after the quakes, and interrogates the manmade disaster that followed. Everyone should read this book.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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It is not enough to win a war; it is more important to organize the peace.
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When therefore we are hindered, or disturbed, or grieved, let us never attribute it to others, but to ourselves; that is, to our own principles. An uninstructed person will lay the fault of his own bad condition upon others. Someone just starting instruction will lay the fault on himself. Some who is perfectly instructed will place blame neither on others nor on himself.
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No wife can endure a gambling husband-unless he is a steady winner.
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Not all films are going to go down in history.
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Virtue cannot dwell with slaves, nor reign O'er those who cower to take a tyrant's yoke.
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Servitude seizes on few, but many seize on her.
