Seneca the Younger Quotes

Let us not disdain glory too much; nothing is finer, except virtue. The height of happiness would be to unite both in this life.

Goodness consists not in the outward things we do, but in the inward thing we are.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

The happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

Virtue, though she gets her beginning from nature, yet receives her finishing touches from learning.

Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy.

Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue.

Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good.

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists in virtue.

I'm actually a very moral guy.

I'm a good person. I've led a good life.

The only word for goodness is goodness, and it is not enough.

Justice is happiness according to virtue.

When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue.

Birth is nothing without virtue, and we have no claim to share in the glory of our ancestors unless we endeavor to resemble them.

Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.

Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.

Is not virtue a negation of becoming?

Virtue is to the soul what health is tot he body.

Be virtuous and you will be eccentric.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Virtue is its own reward.

Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body.

No people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.