Demand Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Demand not that I am the equal of the greatest, only that I am better than the wicked.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Demand Equal Equality Wicked
I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience. — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
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I'm just a man of the people, not above but equal. And for the greater good I walk amongst the evil. — J Cole Copy Share Image
“Wickedness proceedeth from the wicked; what can be expected from unrighteous men but more unrighteousness?” — Matthew Henry Copy Share Image
It is very difficult to make one's way in this world without being wicked at one time or another, when the world's way is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The World is not ruined by the wickedness of the wicked, but by the weakness of the good. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I love being superior to myself better than [to] my equals. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Our times demand the declaration of the world's resources as the common heritage of all people. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
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If a person does not listen to the demands of their own spiritual and heart life and insists on a certain program, you're going… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Empires fall, ids explode, great symphonies are written, and behind all of it is a single instinct that demands satisfaction. — Sherwin B. Nuland Copy Share Image
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There was no mistake in us making abortion legal and available on demand. That was what we call progress. Just like it was no… — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image