Seneca the Younger Quotes

Vice, like disease, floats in the atmosphere.

There are some sick people in this world.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

I am the worst influence. If you can't handle your vices, then I am the Devil.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness; he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

We had a week off in the middle of shooting, but as soon as everyone stopped, we all went down with six different types of flu and other unmentionable diseases.

I ain't afraid of germs, man. And I ain't afraid of getting sick.

When you're surrounded by a world of constant lies, manipulation, and deceit, that dark energy is bound to seep into you eventually.

That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.

No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.

How sick i am! that thought Always comes to me with horror. Is it this strange for everybody? But such fugitive feelings have always been my metier.

But like infection is the petty thought: it creeps and hides, and wants to be nowhere--until the whole body is decayed and withered by the petty infection... Thus spoke Zarathustra.

Vice is its own reward.

Vice, like virtue, Grows in small steps, and no true innocence Can ever fall at once to deepest guilt.

A nice state of affairs when a man has to indulge his vices by proxy.

Other vices make their own way; this makes way for all vices. He that is a drunkard is qualified for all vice.

The fact that we are living does not mean we are not sick.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

Pride is the king of vices...it is the first of the pallbearers of the soul...other vices destroy only their opposite virtues, as wantonness destroys chastity; greed destroys temperance; anger destroys gentleness; but pride destroys all virtues.

The life even of a just man is a round of petty frauds; that of a knave a series of greater. We degrade life by our follies and vices, and then complain that the unhappiness which is only their accompaniment is inherent in the constitution of things.

Illness is the night-side of life, a more onerous citizenship. Everyone who is born holds dual citizenship, in the kingdom of the well and in the kingdom of the sick.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Sordid and infamous sensuality, the most dreadful evil that issued from the box of Pandora, corrupts every heart, and eradicates every virtue. Fly! wherefore dost thou linger? Fly, cast not one look behind thee; nor let even thy thought return to the accursed evil for a moment.