Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

Seneca the Younger

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• As the facts change, change your thesis. Don't be a stubborn mule, or you'll get killed.

  

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• We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from a troubled dream; it may be so the moment after death.

  

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• It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.

  

  Calamity Jane
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• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  

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• The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
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• No boxer in the history of boxing has had Parkinson's. There's no injury in my brain that suggests that the illness came from boxing.

  

  Muhammad Ali
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• It is very difficult to play a single blitz game! You want to play for a long time. So I tend not to do that anymore.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
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• The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
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  • Desire

• When came the invasion of privacy.That kind of thing turns the newspaper from a friendly organ - not necessarily appeasing everybody - into the enemy. It's one reason why newspapers have suffered circulation falls.

  

  Harold Evans
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• Fools gain greater advantages through their weakness than intelligent men through their strength. We watch a great man struggling against fate and we do not lift a finger to help him. But we patronize a grocer who is headed for bankruptcy.

  

  Honore de Balzac
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  • Fate
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• See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

  

  William Goldman
  • Men
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• A pack of jackasses led by a lion is superior to a pack of lions led by a jackass.

  

  George Washington
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• In fact, the answer to the question "What is mathematics?" has changed several times during the course of history... It was only in the last twenty years or so that a definition of mathematics emerged on which most mathematicians agree: mathematics is the science of patterns.

  

  Keith Devlin
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• Je vous aime,Beaucoup moins que mon Dieu, mais bien plus que moi-même.

  

  Pierre Corneille

• Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

  

  Francis Bacon
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• Looking good and dressing well is a necessity. Having a purpose in life is not.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Good
  • Purpose

• First and foremost must come the recognition and the realization that education is not a luxury in colonial areas, but it is as much a necessity as in free countries. It is an amenity to which every citizen has a right. It is a social service which should be the first charge on the finances of a country. And in advanced countries it is not uncommon for the state to spend as much as 25 per cent of their revenue on education.

  

  Ambalal Dahyabhai Patel
  • Education
  • Necessity
  • Areas

• It is bad to live for necessity; but there is no necessity to live in necessity.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Necessity