Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Seneca the Younger

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• If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Never
  • Bike
  • Falling

• I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Got
  • VIolin
  • Grade

• Take life slowly and deliberately, making sure to acknowledge the people who have helped you succeed along the way.

  

  Ted Levine
  • People
  • Life
  • You

• From the viewpoint of what you can do, therefore, languages do differ - but the differences are limited. For example, Python and Ruby provide almost the same power to the programmer.

  

  Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Power
  • Same
  • Differences

• The Hispanic population in this country is not a monolith. When you're in Miami, the newscast is going to be different from the newscast in Los Angeles.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Different
  • Country
  • Miami

• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Up
  • You
  • Emotion

• MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Author
  • Accept
  • Member

• I sang the songs in 'The Doors'.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Songs
  • Doors
  • Sang

• If there is no threat to the lives of the citizens, our tactic will be to not intervene or impede members of the protest in expressing their will freely.

  

  Vano Merabishvili
  • Will
  • Protest
  • Expressing

• Human beings are religious animals.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Religious
  • Human
  • Animals

• Like an apparently strict musical form it breaks the five minute whole into its structural parts - a descriptive preamble, the action of taking the cards, the development of the cards' manipulation and the revelation of what has been achieved.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Action
  • Development
  • Manipulation

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• My father loved antique shops and shows, and quite a bit of my childhood involved outings to dim, dusty places packed with cast-off treasures.

  

  Gail Z. Martin
  • Father
  • Childhood
  • Loved

• The U.S. government has known since the early 1990s about Soviet-era smallpox weapons, and collected circumstantial evidence of programs elsewhere.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Government
  • Evidence
  • Early

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• Although we can discuss the question of what socialism is, what is its program and what are its tactics, one thing is obvious: the official Italian Socialist Party has been reactionary and absolutely conservative.

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Question
  • Party
  • Italian

• Modern mass culture, aimed at the 'consumer', the civilisation of prosthetics, is crippling people's souls, setting up barriers between man and the crucial questions of his existence, his consciousness of himself as a spiritual being.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Culture

• It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.

  

  Leo Strauss
  • True
  • Wisdom

• I got the sexton, who was digging Linton's grave, to remove the earth off her coffin lid, and I opened it. I thought, once, I would have stayed there, when I saw her face again - it is hers yet - he had hard work to stir me; but he said it would change, if the air blew on it.

  

  Emily Bronte
  • Work
  • Change
  • Grave

• You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Time
  • Write
  • Books

• The modern Gamaliel should teach ethics. Ethics is the science of human duty. Arithmetic tells man how to count his money; ethics how he should acquire it, whether by honesty or fraud. Geography is a map of the world; ethics is a beautiful map of duty. This ethics is not Christianity, it is not even religion; but it is the sister of religion, because the path of duty is in full harmony, as to quality and direction, with the path of God.

  

  David Swing
  • Beautiful
  • Quality
  • Honesty

• Let tears flow of their own accord; their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Tears
  • Harmony
  • Misery