Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'm not going to run away from my responsibilities.

  

  Carlos Mesa
  • Going
  • Run
  • Away

• I absolutely love working with David Boreanaz, and Charisma Carpenter I completely adore – she teaches me to dance.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Dance
  • Working
  • Teaches

• So many able historians have worked over seventeenth-century New England that one would think there was little left to be learned from the people who lived there - fewer than 100,000 at the end of the century. Seldom, apart perhaps from the Greeks and Romans, have so few been studied by so many.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Think
  • End

• Finally there was a moment when it just hit me. John wouldn't want me to sit on my butt for the rest of my life feeling sorry for myself or sorry for him. As cheesy as it sounds, he would have wanted us to go on.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Myself

• A lot of comedians are selfish.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Selfish
  • Lot
  • Comedians

• The cold north wind which bows to earthThe lightness of the willow's birthBends not the mountain cedar trees;Folding their branches from the breeze,They stand as if they could defyThe utmost rage of storm and sky.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Cold
  • Wind
  • Sky

• Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Death
  • Blue
  • Mysterious

• I have got him fast hung up, quoth Didius to himself, upon one of the two horns of my dilemma - let him get off as he can.

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Up

• For decades, Wall Street has charged companies a standard fee of 7 percent to sell their shares to the public.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Wall

• The fact that I have always been deeply invested in politics, and African politics in particular, inevitably played a role in my first novel and, of course, in my decision to write about a handful of particular conflicts in Africa as a journalist.

  

  Dinaw Mengestu
  • Decision

• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles
  • Time

• Cycling is an endurance sport. You lose your fast-twitch ability as you age, but your endurance peaks when you hit 30. I don't think I really started feeling my age until around 40.

  

  Jens Voigt
  • Age
  • Feeling
  • Endurance

• That was the whole point in forming a band. Girls. Absolutely gorgeous girls.

  

  Simon Le Bon Duran Duran
  • Band

• I've spent a lot of time trying to understand how all the big cosmetics companies get away with the placebo science and unscientific claims.

  

  Chris Toumazou
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Science

• All of philanthropy is harnessing that urge to have your name on something, and using it for good.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Good

• I believe that my worth is not measured by what I do, by the honors that are bestowed upon me, or by material wealth that I might obtain. Instead, I am measured by the courage I show while standing for my beliefs, by the dedication I exhibit to ensure my word is good, and the resolve I undertake to establish my actions and deeds as honorable.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Courage

• You gotta understand - the state of Mississippi was in rebellion. It had rebelled against the United States. Now that has been a very difficult story for America to tell, but that's what actually happened.

  

  James Meredith
  • America

• The rhythm of my career has always been very static, staccato and then silent, and then a lot of work, and then none.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • Work
  • Career

• I know that in my family there are histories of violence that are internal family things and that are oftentimes dealt with internally. By internally, I mean inside the family group, but also partly inside ourselves. You know, self-hatred and hostility and rage and this cycle that won't break.

  

  Kara Walker
  • Family
  • Know
  • Violence

• How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Men
  • Women
  • America

• By the time you are in your thirties, most of the time, you've got a job, you can pay for your rent, you can create this nice world around you. And still, you're only in your thirties - you're not that far away from your twenties, which is when you're making all of your stupid mistakes.

  

  Katie Aselton
  • Time
  • World
  • Job

• The theoretical postulate of all diplomatic discussion between nations is the assumed willingness of every nation to do justice.

  

  Elihu Root
  • Justice

• Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Beauty
  • Simplicity
  • Variety

• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Simplicity
  • Goodness