Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Seneca the Younger

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• The Scriptures of the Old and New Testament, said an eminent scholar, have God for their Author, the Salvation of mankind for their end, and Truth without any mixture of error for their matter.

  

  Adam Clarke
  • God
  • Truth
  • End

• The thing that is so great about Ang Lee is the diversity in his filmmaking, from 'Brokeback...' to 'The Hulk.'

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Great
  • Diversity
  • Filmmaking

• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Life
  • Live
  • Age

• It's funny how you can be thought of as somebody who humanizes bad guys, and I'll take that, but it is something that gave me pause, and I started speaking to my team about finding a good guy.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Guy

• If you allow thousands or millions of unidentified persons into your house, the risk of... terrorism will significantly increase.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • House
  • You
  • Risk

• You can't fight the fact that Detroit is a de-industrializing market and it isn't facing dramatic, positive transformation.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Positive
  • Transformation

• For me, standup will always be some part of my life, and other things will move around and find their place.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • Me
  • My Life

• Well, I met Frank Sinatra and Bob Dylan in the space of 15 minutes. Frank Sinatra kissed me on the lips. He kissed me on the lips. And then he gave me a filterless cigarette. And then I met Bob Dylan. I came off all lightheaded and had to go sit on his dressing-room steps.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Me
  • Space
  • Go

• We haven't seen the turning point yet, but we're sticking to our bottom line, for the environment and the health of the country.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Country
  • Health
  • Environment

• God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • God
  • Light
  • Darkness

• Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • People
  • Up
  • Space

• There's more than one way to sense violence.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Way
  • Violence
  • Sense

• Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Time

• The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

  

  Aristotle
  • Liberty
  • State
  • Democratic

• Sure you're powerless, sure you're just one person, sure you can't change anything... but you don't have to be miserable about it as well.

  

  Lydia Lunch

• For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

  

  Darren Criss
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Holiday

• One cannot escape the harsh fact that as a ministerial profession, the priesthood has very serious problems. They are not new. They did not develop yesterday or last year.

  

  Andrew Greeley
  • Serious

• I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.

  

  Bill Irwin
  • Home
  • Job
  • Mother

• I always tell the story of 'Irreplaceable.' I initially wrote 'Irreplaceable' with myself in mind, with plans of it being my record. I love that record; however, what I realised about that record was that though given the circumstances of that situation - men and women are not that different - when you sing about it, it changes things, you know?

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• Long live Montreal, Long live Quebec! Long live Free Quebec!

  

  Charles de Gaulle
  • Long
  • Live
  • Free

• I would say that now I'm somebody who goes to church.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Church

• Because animals seem to dwell in the present moment, because their own presence is so instinctive, their attention so unwavering, the offer us a different kind of compassion than humans do. Anyone is lucky to have both human and animal comfort in their lives.

  

  Brenda Peterson
  • Attention
  • Humans
  • Compassion

• Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?

  

  Kajol
  • Love
  • True
  • Feeling

• Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Causes
  • Wishes
  • Chain