Seneca the Younger Quotes

A good man with a good conscience doesn't walk so fast.

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

I prefer to do right and get no thanks than to do wrong and receive no punishment.

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

Act with honor, and Honor will aid you

A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

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

A good man should and must Sit rather down with loss than rise unjust.

Integrity means always doing what is right and good, regardless of the immediate consequences.

Let no pleasure tempt thee, no profit allure thee, no persuasion move thee, to do anything which thou knowest to be evil; so shalt thou always live jollity; for a good conscience is a continual Christmas.

Concepts of integrity and heroism and honor are still important to the world today. Some people behave well, and some people behave badly.

The Master said, "Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it."

Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.

A good man will avoid the spot of any sin. The very aspersion is grievous, which makes him choose his way in his life, as he would in his journey.

We uniformly applaud what is right and condemn what is wrong, when it costs us nothing but the sentiment.

Corruption wins not more than honesty.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness.

With integrity you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt. With fear and guilt removed you are free to be and do your best.

In day-to-day life, you have stimulus to behave unethically, but in the long term, it always pays off to be ethical.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.

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

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

I love the idea of rectitude.