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Virtue Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.
- Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue…
- Virtue is nothing else than right reason
- Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.
- The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the…
- Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of…
- Calamity is virtue's opportunity.
- Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?
- Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell…
- We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a…
- 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…
- To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.
- Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.
- Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels…
- 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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- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- All virtue is summed up in dealing justly. — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
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- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine