Seneca the Younger Quotes

The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire.

In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue.

Virtue is the roughest way, but proves at night a bed of down.

Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Calamity is the test of integrity.

Courage is the most important of the virtues because it is the one that makes all the others possible.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

It's easy to be good when things are great; it's tough to be good when they're not.

Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

You can measure a man's character by the choices he makes under pressure.

Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.

The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.

Patience is moral elasticity.

For there is some virtue or other to be exercised, whatever happens.

No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable.

Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently.

Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can.

It requires greater virtues to support good fortune than bad.

Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.