The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without;… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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
As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences… — 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
Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only… — 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
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
Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our… — 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
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
