Virtue 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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It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

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

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No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a…

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

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

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Vice is contagious, and there is no trusting the sound and the sick together.

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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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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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Those vices [luxury and neglect of decent manners] are vices of men, not of the times. [Lat., Hominum sunt ista [vitia], non…

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Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences…

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Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only…

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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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The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without;…

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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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Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our…

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As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so…

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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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