Seneca (2023)

John Malkovich: Seneca

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• Seneca : Aim for virtue, and happiness will follow.

• Seneca : The world should crack with cataclysms and earthquakes. But we know how it is. Everything marches on as always, and Evil becomes the New Normal.

• Seneca : [to Lucia]  You're a one-woman opium crisis.

• Seneca : Could it be that we, of all generations, are deserving of the sky's collapse and an Earth knocked off its axes? Could it be?

• Seneca : Nothing will ever befall me that I shall receive with gloomy countenance.

• Seneca : Though we may dream of justice, we can't believe in it. Except as a kid story our grandmother told us.

• Seneca : I am not much one for blowing my own horn...

  [Lucia laughs out loud] 

  Seneca : but fear is not on my list of ingredients.

• Seneca : What is required of those who are allowed to dine at the president's table? What are the conditions necessary for the good life, all the benefits, the eating, the drinking to continue? Exactly this: You must smile at the slaughter of your loved ones and say, "Thank you, boss. might I have another?" You must eat the shit you were told to eat, and beg for more. Like love, like relations, all is transactional. Alas! Whether life is worth living at such a price is a whole other question.