Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

Seneca the Younger

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• I don't believe in accidents. There are only encounters in history. There are no accidents.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Believe
  • History
  • Accidents

• I was always more interested in the ultimate live performance rather than the recording for its own sake. And, for the audience too, that thrill of - just being there.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Live
  • Audience
  • Performance

• I never got into politics for it to be a career.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Career
  • Never
  • Politics

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.

  

  Langston Hughes
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Fear

• I'm the best Twitterer.

  

  Dan Carter
  • Best

• Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.

  

  Otto Rank
  • Give
  • Birth
  • Shalt

• It's high time for the art world to admit that the avant-garde is dead. It was killed by my hero, Andy Warhol, who incorporated into his art all the gaudy commercial imagery of capitalism (like Campbell's soup cans) that most artists had stubbornly scorned.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Time
  • World
  • Art

• Don't compare me to Babe Ruth. God gave me the opportunity and the ability to be here at the right time, at the right moment, just like he gave Babe Ruth when he was playing. I just hope I can keep doing what I've been doing - keep taking care of business.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Time
  • God
  • Business

• Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.

  

  Walter Annenberg
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

  Claude McKay
  • Life
  • She
  • Tiger

• 'I don’t trust you.''Of course you don’t. I know I wouldn’t. And I’m not asking you to. I’m not putting you in a situation in which your trust of me is even remotely relevant. I’m just pointing a gun to your head and giving you orders.'

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Giving
  • Trust
  • Gun

• My hairstyle is not common in India, where my parents come from.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents

• All of my music is honest.

  

  The Weeknd
  • Music

• I think it's going to be amazing to see how the world of microbiology, molecular and cellular biology, and human physiology is massively changed by microgravity.

  

  Kathleen Rubins
  • World
  • Amazing

• I realized I was a girl playing with all of these great musicians, but race and gender never did cross my mind, really, until other people started talking about them. They weren't really an issue for me.

  

  Cynthia Robinson
  • People
  • Great
  • Mind

• Black women know that we've got to take care of it - so we take care of it. It's just embedded in us.

  

  Loni Love
  • Women
  • Black

• The serenity prayer, 'God grant me the strength to accept...' That's a prayer that's actually in my car. I say it every day.

  

  Lauren London
  • God
  • Car
  • Prayer

• I had done a couple of auditions for 'Amistad' and didn't feel it was going to go any further - and then the call came about heading to Los Angeles to work with Steven Spielberg. It was surreal: exciting, challenging, overwhelming.

  

  Chiwetel Ejiofor
  • Work
  • Done
  • Couple

• Denver is home to me, and to be recognized for my achievements in the sports community here is a great honor.

  

  Carmelo Anthony
  • Great
  • Home
  • Community

• I think I'm better all around as a skater. Physically, I think I'm definitely stronger. I'm lighter, I'm leaner, I know a lot more about my body.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Body
  • Stronger
  • Skater

• when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness will be the balm that soothes the wounds of life.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Life
  • Body
  • Kindness

• Peace - the word evokes the simplest and most cherished dream of humanity. Peace is, and has always been, the ultimate human aspiration. And yet our history overwhelmingly shows that while we speak incessantly of peace, our actions tell a very different story.

  

  Javier Perez de Cuellar
  • History
  • Dream
  • Peace

• Less shame a greater fault would palliate.

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Shame
  • Fault
  • Palliate

• Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Humanity
  • Fortunate
  • Unhappy