Seneca the Younger Quotes About Character

• A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Character, Guarantees

• No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Long, Lapses

• You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Character

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LII)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1917.

• I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Home, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Needs, Crooked

• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

  Seneca the Younger

  Passion, Character, Night

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Personality, Desire

• No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Pride, Should

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Character, Class

• We must take care to live not merely a long life, but a full one; for living a long life requires only good fortune, but living a full life requires character. Long is the life that is fully lived; it is fulfilled only when the mind supplies its own good qualities and empowers itself from within.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Long, Empowering

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