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Action Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- A consciousness of wrongdoing is the first step to salvation...you have to catch yourself doing it before you can correct it.
- How can a thing possibly govern others when it cannot be governed itself?
- How much better to pursue a straight course and eventually reach that destination where the things that are pleasant are the things that are honorable…
- Let us fight the battle-retreat from the things that attract us and rouse ourselves to meet the things that actually attack us.
- To be everywhere is to be nowhere.
- We should live as if we were in public view, and think, too, as if someone could peer into the inmost recesses of our hearts-which…
- You have to persevere and fortify your pertinacity until the will to good becomes a disposition to good.
- Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk.
- Love of action is not industry.
- Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us…
- No action will be considered blameless, unless the will was so, for by the will the act was dictated.
- An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right…
- Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.
- The profit on a good action is to have done it.
- Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not…
- The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.
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