The best Quotes by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Harvey Dent: "When their enemies were at the gates, the Romans would suspend democracy and appoint one man to protect the city. It wasn't considered an honor, it was considered a public service."
Rachel Dawes: "Harvey, the last man who they appointed the Republic was named Caesar and he never gave up his power."
Harvey Dent: "Okay, fine. you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain..."

Harvey Dent in Batman - The Dark Knight

Julius Caesar Rome

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health. What have the Romans ever done for us?

Reg in Monty Python’s Life of Brian

Rome

Rome is the mob. Conjure magic for them, and they'll be distracted. Take away their freedom, and still they'll roar.

Gracchus in Gladiator

Freedom Foolishness Rome

When most first think of the word "empire", we think of the big one: Star Wars! Or Rome. And this is history, so it's Rome.

Philomena Cunk in Cunk On Earth - Episode 1

Rome Quotes about Star Wars

Teutoburg Forest, 9 AD. Three Roman legions are advancing towards Germania. The largest army in the world is met with many quarreling tribes. The Romans called them "barbarians". Their encounter changed the course of history.

Barbarians - Season 1 Episode 1

Rome

Italy has changed. But Rome is Rome.

Robert De Niro

Italy Rome

They say money can't buy happiness. But it can book your flight to Rome - which is kinda the same.

Rome

Sometimes, strangers can become more like family than blood ever could.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

Friendship Blood

It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

Nick Hornby in High Fidelity

Friendship Family

When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up.
I wrote down "happy". They told me I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life.

John Lennon

Happiness

That's the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than seeing someone have a good f*cking life.

Chuck Palahniuk

Happiness Revenge

Saphira: "Live in the present, remember the past, and fear not the future, for it doesn't exist and never shall. There is only now."

Christopher Paolini in The Inheritance Cycle - Eldest

Present

The future starts today, not tomorrow.

Pope Johannes Paul II

Present

She warned him not to be deceived by appearances, for beauty is found within.

Beauty and the Beast

Beauty Appearance

All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring.
Renewed shall be blade that was broken
The crownless again shall be king.

J.R.R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring

Appearance Poems

Ted: "You're scared of the seven dwarves?"
Robin: "Just of Doc. He's creepy... I mean, the guy went to medical school, what is he doing living with six coalminers."

Robin Scherbatsky in How I Met Your Mother - Season 2 Episode 9

Dwarfs

Calling a Dwarf dishonest in her own home? That's a recipe for strong gravy!

Disa in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 4

Dwarfs

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

"Size is no guarantee of power," said George. "Look at Ginny."

Fred and George Weasley in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Ginny Weasley Size

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Garden Libraries

The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Memories Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

When you were born you were crying and everyone else was smiling. Live your life so at the end, you're the one wo is smiling and everyone else is crying.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life

For every minute you are angry, you lose 60 seconds of happiness.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Happiness Minutes

The one who lives in the memories of his loved ones can't be dead; dead is only who's forgotten.

Immanuel Kant

Death Grief & Condolence Day of the Dead

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Lies

Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.

Socrates

Humanity Death

From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

Socrates

Hatred

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Aristotle

Love Soul Friendship

To appreciate the beauty of a snowflake it is necessary to stand out in the cold.

Aristotle

Snow Winter Coldness

For when you gaze long into the abyss. The abyss gazes also into you.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Ultimately, it is the desire, not the desired, that we love.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Desire

To write a loveletter, you have to start without knowing what you're gonna write and end without knowing what you wrote.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Love Letters

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Foolishness Quotes to think about

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

Plato

Humanity Desire Knowledge Feelings & Emotions

By playing for one hour, you can get to know someone better, than by talking for a year.

Plato

Playing

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Friedrich Schiller in Don Carlos

Youth Men Birthday Age

I fear nothing - nothing - but the boundaries of your love.

Friedrich Schiller in Intrigue and Love

Love declerations

Big results require big ambitions.

Heraclitus

Ambition Motivation

The sun is new each day.

Heraclitus

Sun

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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