Seneca the Younger Quotes

The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.

Virtue is no empty echo.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.

Virtue is the fount whence honour springs.

A good moral character is the first essential. It is highly important not only to be learned but to be virtuous.

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

Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor.

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men.

Honesty is nothin' compared to decency.

It is no easy task to be good.

The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.

If I have one wish which is greater than another, it is, if I had the power, to make men do right; to make them stop their swearing, their lying, their deceiving, to stop trying to injure the innocent, and begin to be honest and upright in all their dealings with one another and honor the name of the Deity.

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.

Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune.

What is called virtue in the common sense of the word has nothing to do with this or that man's prosperity, or even happiness.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

Virtue is the truest nobility.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shining star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

The just man walks in his integrity

Virtue is the first title of nobility.

Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent.