Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

Seneca the Younger

• Mind
• Kind
• Pleasure
• Modest
• Divinity

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• Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • People
  • Ideas
  • Try

• Even if I'm making music for people for $20 a night, at least I'm making music.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • People
  • Music
  • Night

• You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Heart
  • Art
  • Listening

• It's not the winter that bothers me – it's the summers.

  

  Walt Alston
  • Winter
  • Bothers
  • Summers

• Together, we can build a stronger, more innovative New Hampshire, where our businesses can grow, flourish, and create good jobs for our people.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • People
  • Good
  • Together

• Fracking is an incredible risk to the human race, I don't know why they even thought of doing it.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Why
  • Risk
  • Thought

• There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Health
  • Government
  • Service

• Bowie is just a persona. He's a singer, an entertainer. David Jones is a man I met.

  

  Iman
  • Man
  • Singer
  • Bowie

• There is something in the way that we are now, with our cell phones, and people are not looking at each other and not being in the moment with each other, that kids feel isolated.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Kids
  • Moment

• It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Movie
  • You
  • Story

• I've been spending quite a bit of time in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the U.K. as Mint is expanding globally, and I'm personally doing much of the research and business deals to make them happen.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Time
  • Business
  • Research

• I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.

  

  Carl Barks
  • Great
  • Book
  • Better

• If I could have anyone on speed dial it would be George Clooney. He seems like a cool guy who would give good advice.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Cool

• I thought inside 'I must really be crazy, now - because craziness is where everybody agrees about something - except you!' And yet I felt saner than I had ever felt, so I knew this was a new kind of craziness or perhaps a new kind of saneness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Crazy

• It was Africa distilled up through six thousand feet like the strong and refined essence of a continent... The views were immensely wide - everything that you saw made for greatness and freedom, and unequalled nobility.

  

  Karen Blixen
  • Up
  • Strong
  • Freedom

• It wasn’t what was done to you. Life was what you did with what was done to you.

  

  Kameron Hurley
  • Life
  • Done

• Our technology promises the magic of constant connectedness. Yet we feel loss in being atomized on separate screens, trapped in filter bubbles of belief, bobbing in a sharing economy in which the technologists seem to own all the shares.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Technology
  • Magic
  • Bubbles

• I am mean as cats' meat about handbags: mine don't ever look chic. I always prefer bags that aren't made of leather.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• I submit to you that even today, as tough as things seem, it is much better to be us than them, ... Why do I say this? First, they have no plan. Second, if they ever announce one it will be consistent with their philosophy of bigger and bigger government and higher and higher taxes.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • Why
  • Today
  • Government

• Mystery such as is given of God is beyond the power of human penetration, yet not in opposition to it.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • God
  • Power
  • Mystery

• For me, I am really interested in how I can stretch myself to produce things. If, in the process, others take note and recognise that, then wonderful.

  

  Uzodinma Iweala
  • Wonderful
  • Produce
  • Recognise

• I really want to play Princess Leia. Stick some big pastries on my head. Now, that would be interesting.

  

  Ewan McGregor
  • Interesting
  • Play
  • Princess

• I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Woman
  • Pleasure
  • Meditating

• The sovereign good of man is a mind that subjects all things to itself and is itself subject to nothing; such a man's pleasures are modest and reserved, and it may be a question whether he goes to heaven, or heaven comes to him; for a good man is influenced by God Himself, and has a kind of divinity within him.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Mind
  • Kind
  • Pleasure