Argument Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Dangerous Degrading Equal Inferiors Mad Strive Superiors
“It is easier to compare oneself, to establish social exchange as that swapmeet of glory and contempt where each person receives a superiority in… — Jacques Rancière Copy Share Image
We are all equal in that we can all strive to become the best we are capable of becoming. We can always improve but… — John Wooden Copy Share Image
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
You don't have to be equal, you don't have to be better, you don't have to be worse. You can just be at peace. — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Where there are no distinctions there can be no superiority; perfect equality affords no temptation. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As long as people overlook matters, then inferiors can, without any fear, lead an easy and peaceful life. — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Discovering a richer quality of being-ness means to keep surrendering and letting go of resistance. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Where there is no attachment for the good and abhorrence for the bad is called the state of equanimity. The one without duality is… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I have no respect for the passion of equality, which seems to me merely idealizing envy. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr 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
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image