Seneca the Younger Quotes About Quality

• One of the most beautiful qualities of true friendship is to understand and to be understood.

  Seneca the Younger

  Friendship, Beautiful, Loyalty

  "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

• It is the constant fault and inseparable evil quality of ambition, that it never looks behind it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Evil, Quality

• Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

  Seneca the Younger

  Depressing, Mind, Quality

• It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Excellence, Quality

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius". Book by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, transl. Richard Mott Gummere, Letter XLV: On sophistical argumentation, line 1, 1920.

• Be not dazzled by beauty, but look for those inward qualities which are lasting.

  Seneca the Younger

  Quality, Inward, Looks

• The wise man will always reflect concerning the quality not the quantity of life.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Quality

• 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

• Remember that pain has this most excellent quality. If prolonged it cannot be severe, and if severe it cannot be prolonged.

  Seneca the Younger

  Pain, Badass, Quality

  Epistulae ad Lucilium XCIV

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