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State Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Philosophy takes as her aim the state of happiness...she shows us what are real and what are only apparent evils. She strips men's minds of…
- Drunkenness is nothing but a self-induced state of insanity.
- For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
- ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
- When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come…
- What view is one likely to take of the state of a person's mind when his speech is wild and incoherent and knows no constraint?
- Whatever has overstepped its due bounds is always in a state of instability.
- Man's ideal state is realized when he has fulfilled the purpose for which he is born. And what is it that reason demands of him?…
More State Quotes
- A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. — Aristotle
- The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to… — Johann Arndt
- Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The most important aspect of the relationship between the president and the secretary of state is that they both understand who is… — Dean Acheson
- To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment. — Jane Austen
- We cannot build foundations of a state without rule of law. — Mahmoud Abbas
- O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs to be all one tongue… — Teresa of Avila
- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila