Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

Seneca the Younger

• Pain
• Evil
• Suffering
• Enjoy
• Pleasure
• Endure
• Impatient

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• In the future, it's going to move from being just a data transport to really becoming a media experience platform. The Internet will be more about media, more about collaboration, much more virtualized and much more green.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Green

• I greatly enjoy reading the biographies of scientists, and when doing so I always hope to learn the secrets of their success. Alas, those secrets generally remain elusive.

  

  Jack W. Szostak
  • Hope
  • Success
  • Reading

• I would love to do some theater.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Love
  • Theater
  • Some

• In the present time you don't really establish what you're going through, but after time it's declared something. Right now there could be some writers doing something expressing their thoughts in a whole different style that we're not aware of. This could be the 'in-between the notes generation.'

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Time
  • Different
  • Style

• You do not want to get married at 22! Especially if you're famous, because girls are going to be throwing themselves at you.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Married

• You get caught up in hitting home runs and seeing how far you can hit them, and your swing changes.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Up
  • Home
  • Changes

• So Liam and movies are obviously big passions, and I read and write.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • Movies
  • Write
  • Big

• Sometimes I post something unwittingly that connects with women. But I never think, 'OK, let's take a shirtless picture for the girls.'

  

  Maluma
  • Women
  • Think
  • Picture

• I defy any woman that doesn't feel more elegant and more groomed and ready for an evening than if you have a blow dry.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • You
  • Woman
  • Blow

• Isolated and unincorporated, North Gulfport lacked a basic infrastructure: flooding and contaminated drinking water were frequent problems. Although finally incorporated in 1994 - not long after the arrival of the first casino - many of North Gulfport's streets still lack curbs, sidewalks, and gutters.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Long
  • Water
  • Problems

• I'm not a negative person.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Person
  • Negative

• I could wake up six in the morning, go downstairs and record. I learned how to use ProTools and everything. Whenever I felt it, I could record.

  

  Beanie Sigel
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Everything

• Sportspersons have to reinvent themselves every day. It helps them improve.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Improve

• Heckles always vary. I mean, some people are just drunk, and it's nonsense, or, you know, some people just want to just repeat something I've said or add their own two cents about an opinion, but because of the nature of what I do and who I am, like, I also get the racist stuff, which is hard.

  

  Hari Kondabolu
  • People
  • Nature
  • Opinion

• I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!

  

  Caity Lotz
  • House
  • Hate
  • Imagination

• Fashion will take on added stature one day, but try not to be stifled by it. You will learn, as you mature, to swap heels for Stan Smith trainers, minidresses for crisp white shirts. And you will never be one of those people who just roll out of bed.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • People
  • Day
  • Fashion

• Africa’s progress will depend on unleashing economic growth - not just for the few at the top, but for the many, because an essential element of dignity is being able to live a decent life. That begins with a job. And that requires trade and investment.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • Live
  • Job

• I believe easel painting to be a dying form, and the tendency of modern feeling is toward the wall picture or mural..

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Believe
  • Feeling
  • Picture

• The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.

  

  Konrad Lorenz
  • True
  • Earth
  • Dog

• You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't.

  

  Denis Leary
  • Funny

• Our business is not to solve problems beyond our mortal powers, but to see to it that our thoughts are not unworthy of the great theme.

  

  William Macneile Dixon
  • Business
  • Thoughts
  • Problems

• Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostracism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.

  

  Alice Foote MacDougall
  • Life
  • Food
  • Pain

• They accepted the pleasures of morning, the bright sun, the whelming sea and sweet air, as a time when play was good and life so full that hope was not necessary and therefore forgotten.

  

  William Golding
  • Morning
  • Sweet
  • Pleasure

• The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Pain
  • Evil
  • Suffering