Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is,… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature… — Seneca the Younger 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
