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
  • People
  • World
  • God

• 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
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Got

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

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Truth
  • Requires
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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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  • Answer
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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
  • Life
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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
  • Children
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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
  • Peace
  • Silence
  • Sympathy

• 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
  • Company
  • Insane
  • Crosses

• Music Tele-Vision should be covered in jism.

  

  Mojo Nixon
  • Should
  • Media
  • Entertainment

• 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
  • Beautiful
  • Girl
  • Water

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

  

  William Inge
  • Men
  • Animal
  • Cry

• Where are you sleeping tonight? Face down in the mud? That's a British tradition: Take acid and fall asleep in some field.

  

  Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace
  • Fall
  • Sleep
  • Tradition

• I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Theatre

• Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Alone
  • Water
  • Hair

• Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Curious
  • Attraction

• When there’s wickedness in our hearts, God will wait until that wickedness surfaces. He is capable of applying as much heat as it takes to surface the garbage in our hearts, no matter how much we might try to mask our sinfulness with piety.

  

  Bob Sorge
  • God
  • Hearts
  • Wickedness

• The way to wickedness is always through wickedness.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Wickedness