Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

Seneca the Younger

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• Neither birth nor sex forms a limit to genius.

  

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• It's mostly Mars Bars and peanuts and cheese and you go to the fridge and there's Red Bull and Beer. It's not like people are holding me down and pouring beer in my face.

  

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• Finally, you will find that there is no half-measure when it comes to loving someone. You either don’t, or you do with every cell in your body, completely and utterly, without reservation or apology. It consumes you, and you are reborn, all the better for it.

  

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• Let others vibrate as they vibrate and want the best for them. Never mind how they're flowing to you. You concentrate on how you're flowing. Because one who is connected to the Energy Stream is more powerful, more influential than a million who are not.

  

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• Invariably will you find perseverance exemplified as the radical principle in every truly great character. It facilitates, perfects, and consolidates the execution of the plan conceived, and renders profitable its results when attained. By continuing to advance steadily in the same way, light constantly increases, obstacles disappear, efficient habits are confirmed, experience is acquired, the use of the best means is reduced to easy action, and success becomes more sure.

  

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• I've been a musician since childhood, and music is my first love. I love it.

  

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• You’re bigger than the toys. We are always bigger than the things we make. Put them away. Make something new with your life, with your own mind and hands.

  

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• To call a king "Prince" is pleasing, because it diminishes his rank.

  

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• It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men.

  

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• I know I must conceal my sentiments: I must smother hope; I must remember that he cannot care much for me. For when I say that I am of his kind, I do not mean that I have his force to influence, and his spell to attract: I mean only that I have certain tastes and feelings in common with him.I must, then, repeat continually that we are forever sundered: - and yet, while I breathe and think, I must love him.

  

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• Nothing is so contemptible as the sentiments of the mob.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Sentiments
  • Mob
  • Contemptible