Mere Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “No work is of such merit as to instruct from a mere cursory perusal.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Mere Merit
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I would like the work to be non-work. This means that it would find its way beyond my preconceptions...It is the unknown quantity from… — Eva Hesse Copy Share Image
No amount of reading and intelligent deduction could supplant the direct experience. — John Fowles 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
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Bring into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ. Take what I cannot give: my heart, body, thoughts, time, abilities, money, health, strength,… — Elizabeth Prentiss Copy Share Image
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There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living . . .… — Laurens van der Post Copy Share Image
No theory about our bodies as mere objects of observation and calculation (as distinct from partners in communicative interaction, assumed to be free) can… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Astrology is knocking at the gates of our universities: A Tübingen professor has switched over to astrology and a course on astrology was given… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
As long as the human race is able to concern itself with more than mere survival, soccer will have its place. — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
