Seneca the Younger Quotes About Conscience

• A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Long, Solitude

• The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Punishment, Firsts

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Joy, Joy, Foundation

• We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Joy, Foundation, Vex

• Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Integrity, Responsibility

• The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.

  Seneca the Younger

  Prayer, Mind, Body

  "Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius)". Book by Seneca the Younger (letter XIV), circa 65 AD.

• The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Heaven, Noble

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