Seneca the Younger Quotes About Guilt

• Every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Punishment, Guilt

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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 guilt of enforced crimes lies on those who impose them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lying, Guilt, Prison

  "Troades". DCCCLXX,

• Nobody becomes guilty by fate.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Guilt, Guilty

• Let wickedness escape as it may at the bar, it never fails of doing justice upon itself; for every guilty person is his own hangman.

  Seneca the Younger

  Justice, Guilt, Bars

• The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Guilt, Faces, Betray

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Thyestes, CCCXXX, 1922.

• He is not guilty who is not guilty of his own free will.

  Seneca the Younger

  Guilt, Free Will, Guilty

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 345-46, Hercules Oetaeus, 886, 1922.

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