Bane Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bane Behavior Behaviour Habits Levity Virtuous
Being virtuous is wonderful thing, but feeling virtuous is a shortcut to vice. — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I am astonished at the pleasure one experiences in doing good; and I should be tempted to believe that what we call virtuous people… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
There is virtue in virtuosity, especially today, when it protects us from the tedious spectacle of ineptitude. — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. — Plato Copy Share Image
Our behavior is governed by principles. Living in harmony with them brings positive consequences; violating them brings negative consequences. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Virtuous behavior is when one's motivations are aligned with one's reasoned aims: to do what one knows is best and to do it gladly. — Doctor Anil Sinha Copy Share Image
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. — Nell Scovell 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
The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect,… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Losing is the bane and bugbear of every professional athlete's existence, but in baseball the monster seems to hang closer than in other sports,… — Roger Angell Copy Share Image
“Fear is the bane of all creatures and bubbles inside all forming a rock of solidifying darkness, sucking all will power to act or… — Isabella Irini Poretsis Copy Share Image
Captcha is the bane of the Internet. I can't figure them out myself half the time! — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
Women, you overheated dipsomaniacs, never passing up a chance to wangle a drink, a great boon to bartenders but a bane to us--not to… — Aristophanes Copy Share Image
As you are entered with the class of Nat. philosophy, give to it the hours of lecture, but devote all your other time to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
[Sherlock Holmes:] The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids… — John Mason Brown Copy Share Image