Character Quotes by Seneca the Younger

Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

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Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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Successful villany is called virtue.

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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

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If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

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Virtue is nothing else than right reason

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Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

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To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

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Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

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Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

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We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

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Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But…

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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

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Virtue hath no virtue if it be not impugned; then appeareth how great it is, of what value and power it is,…

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We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no…

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Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles;…

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Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this…

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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature…

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We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only…

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