Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

Seneca the Younger

• Modesty
• Acquire
• Preserve

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• At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.

  

  Jack Bruce Cream
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• Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
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• A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.

  

  Randall Terry
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• Well, I was a very strong opponent of the war, in fact, one of those who went door to door to my colleagues and thus achieved 60 percent of the Democrats voting no against this war.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
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• The last time I twerked I was with @katyperry. She was rather good at it!

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• A human best, which is very little. Its hard to accept the idea that there cannot be an order in the universe because it would offend the free will of God and His omnipotence. So the freedom of God is our condemnation, or at least the condemnation of our pride.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • God
  • Free
  • Freedom

• The great thing is to be found at one's post as a child of God, living each day as though it were our last, but planning as though the world might last a hundred years.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Great
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• Cancer is always funny.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Cancer

• When you're young, you tend to believe what people tell you, and that's dangerous. As you get older, you learn that you're never as good or as bad as they say you are. If you understand this, you win.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Confidence

• If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Power
  • Scare
  • Reservations

• The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Happy
  • Capacity
  • Unhappy

• Don't second guess the mistakes you've made, others will do that for you.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Made
  • Mistakes
  • Others

• I know Geno Atkins is a big anime fan. Cameron Jordan, Larry Warford, my boy Adam Gettis is a big anime fan.

  

  Mike Daniels
  • Adam
  • Anime
  • Jordan

• And then, one by one, they came onto the screen late in the day to pontificate about how we were going into a moral sewer. How this image of a breast at a family halftime show was not only disgusting, it was disturbing, it was shocking, it was indecent. I thought 'Uh, it's just a tit. And none of those adjectives really fucking apply.'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Family
  • Moral

• People run away from the name subsidy. It is a subsidy. I am not afraid to call it so. It is paid for the purpose of giving a merchant marine to the whole country so that the trade of the whole country will be benefitted thereby, and the men running the ships will of course make a reasonable profit.... Unless we have a merchant marine, our navy if called upon for offensive or defensive work is going to be most defective.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • People
  • Men
  • Country

• I really just love to read, period, whether it be books or magazines or the back of the cereal box. It's the one thing I can always count on to calm me down, take me away and inspire me, all at once.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Book
  • Calm
  • Inspire

• You cannot, I repeat, successfully acquire it and preserve your modesty at the same time.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Modesty
  • Acquire
  • Preserve