Seneca the Younger Quotes

Books follow morals, and not morals books.

Learn what is true in order to do what is right.

In order to do good, a man must be good; and he will not be good except he have instruction by counsel and by example.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Base thy life on principle, not on rules.

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

I'm lucky; I've been raised with the right morals.

What is a good man? A teacher of a bad man. What is a bad man? A good man's charge?

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

To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality.

Every complete man has his genius. True virtue is genius.

Our ideals are our better selves.

A man should be upright, not be kept upright.

Prefer a loss to a dishonest gain; the one brings pain at the moment, the other for all time.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Character is that quality of mind which makes truth-telling instinctive rather than strange.

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Character is much easier kept than recovered.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

I learned a lot about morality from fiction, from movies.

Conscience is the sentinel of virtue.

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.

There is the moral spectrum in 'Fargo,' and you see it in other Coen brothers movies, where you have a very good character on one end and a very bad character on the other.

Bad company corrupts good character.