Seneca the Younger Quotes

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

There is no virtue so truly great and godlike as justice.

How near to good is what is fair!

To know what virtue is is not enough; we must endeavor to possess and to practice it, or in some other manner actually ourselves to become good.

Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.

I think most people know inherently that good wins.

To make your people understand what righteousness is, this must be the basis of all your teaching.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses.

All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.

In the end, I think people prefer the good to win rather than the bad.

Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness in an everlasting stream.

All virtue is summed up by just dealing.

No social system, however, elevates "Goodness" to a deciding principle, whether the realm be art, politics, or economics.

To refrain from all injustice renders us also humane.

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

Men become old, but they never become good.

Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any.

I just want to be as good a person as I can be.

I require myself not to be equal to the best, but to be better then the bad.

ATHENA: You wish to be called righteous rather than act right. [...] I say, wrong must not win by technicalities.

If all men were just there would be no need of valor.

Be thou good thyself, and let people speak evil of thee; it is better than to be wicked, and that they should consider thee as good.