Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

Seneca the Younger

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• Change marriage and you change the world. Convince people that government, not God, lays down the rules for marriage, and they will believe more strongly that they determine right and wrong, that not even the world's rulers are subject to a higher authority.

  

  R. C. Sproul
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• The thinking that got us to where we are is not the thinking that will get us to where we want to be.

  

  Albert Einstein
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• To arrive at the simplest truth requires years of contemplation.

  

  Isaac Newton
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• If one should desire to know whether a kingdom is well governed, if its morals are good or bad, the quality of its music will furnish the answer.

  

  Confucius
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• It's vital to be growing through your life rather than going through your life. The object is not to change other people or situations; it's to do the inner work they stimulate.

  

  Wally Amos
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• Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

  

  Tom Hardy
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• After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. "Yes, he replied. "The path of sympathy.

  

  Albert Camus
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• Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

  

  Michael Caine
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• Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Should
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• but that mimosa grove - the haze of stars, the tingle, the flame, the honey-dew, and the ache remained with me, and that little girl with her seaside limbs and ardent tongue haunted me ever since." "this then is my story. i have reread it. it has bits of marrow sticking to it, and blood, and beautiful bright-green flies. at this or that twist of it i feel my slippery self eluding me, gliding into deeper and darker waters than i care to probe.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
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• From beasts we scorn as soulless, In forest, field and den, The cry goes up to witness The soulessness of men

  

  William Inge
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• I don't know in advance what I am going to put on canvas any more than I decide beforehand what colours I am going to use.

  

  Pablo Picasso
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• You can ask any Latin actor: inevitably, if they get a part meant for a white guy, producers will change the character's name to sound more Latin.

  

  Nicholas Gonzalez
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• Let it stand, therefore, as an indubitable truth, which no engines can shake, that the mind of man is so entirely alienated from the righteousness of God that he cannot conceive, desire, or design any thing but what is wicked, distorted, foul, impure, and iniquitous; that his heart is so thoroughly envenomed by sin that it can breathe out nothing but corruption and rottenness; that if some men occasionally make a show of goodness, their mind is ever interwoven with hypocrisy and deceit, their soul inwardly bound with the fetters of wickedness.

  

  John Calvin
  • Heart
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• The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wickedness