Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

Seneca the Younger

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• Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Knowledge
  • Risk
  • Doing

• Like great teams in sports and business endeavors, if there's a chemistry among the participants, and they truly enjoy fellowship together, everybody wants to be there, stay involved, and just have fun together.

  

  Ed Greenwood
  • Great
  • Business
  • Together

• There is no birth of consciousness without pain.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Pain
  • Consciousness
  • Birth

• I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Earth

• The deepest difference between religions is not that between polytheism and monotheism.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • Difference
  • Between
  • Deepest

• People think that there is so much money in tennis, but the reality is unless you're ranked in about the top 50 you don't earn much at all. It is hard to support yourself travelling the world, to be away from home most of the year and to pay for a coach to help you become a better player.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • World
  • Money

• Wait for those unguarded moments. Relax the mood and, like the child dropping off to sleep, the subject often reveals his truest self.

  

  Barbara Walters
  • Moments
  • Sleep
  • Mood

• I'm a natural blonde, but I feel like a brunette.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Blonde

• Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Personality
  • Better
  • Boring

• Legitimate small businesses are put at a huge competitive disadvantage when bad actors lie about their small business status and don't play by the rules.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Bad
  • Small

• Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Holiday
  • Destination
  • Italy

• Fear created the first gods in the world.

  

  Caecilius Statius
  • World
  • Fear
  • First

• Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • May
  • Day
  • Pain

• A master can tell you what he expects of you. A teacher, though, awakens your own expectations.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • You
  • Teacher
  • Expectations

• My love for American music and American movies is from an early age. I was 10 or 11 when I heard Fats Domino and Little Richard and Buddy Holly. And the movies, my dad used to take my brother and I to the movies every Friday. It was incredible: we got to see just about every movie that came out for a period of years.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Music
  • Dad
  • Brother

• If you don’t have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters. If you don’t have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from. You make a big election about small things.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Small

• We are confident that the Islamic logic, culture, and discourse can prove their superiority in all fields over all schools of thought and theories.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Culture
  • Logic
  • Islamic

• I think the whole attitude towards climbing Mount Everest has become rather horrifying. The people just want to get to the top. They don't give a damn for anybody else who may be in distress and it doesn't impress me at all that they leave someone lying under a rock to die.

  

  Edmund Hillary
  • People
  • May
  • Die

• All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • War

• Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Age
  • Day
  • Social Media

• Yeah I flirt, I'm not blind and I'm not dead!.

  

  Dolly Parton
  • Blind
  • Flirting

• What is important is that complex systems, richly cross-connected internally, have complex behaviours, and that these behaviours can be goal-seeking in complex patterns.

  

  William Ross Ashby
  • Important
  • Goal
  • Chaos

• The universe will put signposts in your life. You can either ignore them or embrace them. You can choose and wish for all the things you want, but the things that are coming to you, you will never be able to hide from and the things that you want so bad that are not supposed to be for you for whatever reason, they'll never come to you.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Wish

• Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wish
  • Poverty
  • Littles