Seneca the Younger Quotes

Good actions ennoble us, and we are the sons of our deeds.

If one acts rightly and honestly, it is difficult to decide whether it is the effect of integrity or skill.

A determination never to do what is wrong, prudence, and good-humor, will go far toward securing to you the estimation of the world.

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

It's impossible to speak what it is not noble to do.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

The just man walks in his integrity

All you should try to do is behave with honour. If you can. At all times.

Good character improves every aspect of a person’s life.

For he who is honest is noble, Whatever his fortunes or birth.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honour, on the plausible pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked out by good means.

Very few reputations are gained by unsullied virtue.

If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes.

That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty.

Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue.

We must be devoted to sound principles in word and deed: principle above party, principle above pocketbook, principle above popularity.

Conduct is the grand test of character. Words are one great evidence of the condition of the heart.

A man may be very sincere in good principles, without having good practice.

It is the property of a great and good mind to covet, not the fruit of good deeds, but good deeds themselves, and to seek for a good man even after having met with bad men.

Honour is purchased by the deeds we do.

If they are just, they are better than clever.