Lucius Annaeus Seneca Quotes

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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• During the morning rush hour on March 20, 1995, the Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo placed packages on five subway trains converging on Tokyo's central station. When punctured, the packages spread vaporized Sarin through the subway cars and then into the stations as the trains pulled in.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Morning
  • Japanese
  • March

• It was funny on '24' because I'm a Scots-Canadian, and I was working with the great Scottish actor Tony Curran, and we were both playing Russian gangsters.

  

  Callum Keith Rennie
  • Great
  • Funny
  • Actor

• Working with special needs children is hard.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Children
  • Working
  • Special

• Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Hunger

• When I wake up on a Sunday morning with a slight hangover, in the gym with no makeup on, that's who Natalie Dormer really is. The girl next door who gets a spot on her forehead occasionally.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • Morning

• Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Music
  • Kids
  • Game

• Ill give you a definite maybe.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • You
  • Give
  • Maybe

• I'm not an architectural composer.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Composer
  • Architectural

• Antimatter is not a source of energy for us, it's a method of storing energy, compact but inefficient.

  

  Barney Oliver
  • Energy
  • Source
  • U.S.

• Fans can never accuse R. Kelly of doing the same thing; I keep mixing it up.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Never
  • Doing

• When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Conservative
  • Democrat

• My working hypothesis is that stupidity in popular culture is a constant. Popular culture cannot get more stupid.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Culture
  • Stupid
  • Popular

• It was so satisfying for me - a great reward, just to see it done well. And it was beautifully directed by my daughter Susan Riskin. Imagine, a play about my mother directed by my daughter?!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Great
  • Done
  • Mother

• Love is the whole history of a woman's life, it is but an episode in a man's.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Life
  • Love
  • History

• It's a very enticing, very seductive place, but once you get to know what L.A.'s really like, you don't want to live there.

  

  Patrick Fugit
  • Live
  • Want
  • Know

• I probably dreamt about running off to America or something when I was 16 because it just seemed like I was studying algebra and going, 'What am I going to use this for?'

  

  Carey Mulligan
  • America
  • Running
  • Like

• I sang in church, but growing up in the neighborhood, music was more of an expression of relief or entertainment.

  

  Q-Tip
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• The power of choosing good and evil is within the reach of all.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • Power
  • Evil

• I've always been into fashion since I was a kid. I love fashion. I appreciate it.

  

  Future
  • Fashion

• As dew leaves the cobweb lightly Threaded with stars, Scattering jewels on the fence And the pasture bars; As dawn leaves the dry grass bright And the tangled weeds Bearing a rainbow gem On each of their seeds; So has your love, my lover, Fresh as the dawn, Made me a shining road To travel on, Set every common sight Of tree or stone Delicately alight For me alone.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Tree
  • Common
  • Lovers

• After a subsequent interview at Brooklyn Poly, I was hired, and life as a fully independent researcher began.

  

  Rudolph A. Marcus
  • Independent
  • Interviews
  • Brooklyn

• I do have a journal, that I write all my thoughts in every day. So that's kind of something. I also have a burn box where I write secrets down and put it in a box.

  

  Miranda Cosgrove
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Secret

• Artists who believe they control everything control what they know. Artists who allow outside forces to intervene are like canoes going down rapids. The rocks are there. If you fight them, you fly off the bow. If you allow the current to take you, you can pass through swimmingly. It is a rare gift at every bend.

  

  Arno
  • Control
  • Artist
  • Fight

• He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

  

  Lucius Annaeus Seneca