Seneca the Younger Quotes About Goodness

• Nature does not bestow virtue; to be good is an art.

  Seneca the Younger

  Positive, Art, Philosophy

• It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, People

• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Luxury, People, Simplicity

• It is not goodness to be better than the worst.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goodness, Worst

• Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Simplicity, Goodness, Squalor

• The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

  Seneca the Younger

  Way, Goodness, Helpfulness

• The largest part of goodness is the will to become good.

  Seneca the Younger

  Goodness

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