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Character Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
- A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
- No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
- I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace;…
- There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
- We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our…
- It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the…
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