Seneca the Younger Quotes About Shame

• The most miserable mortals are they that deliver themselves up to their palates, or to their lusts; the pleasure is short, and turns presently nauseous, and the end of it is either shame or repentance.

  Seneca the Younger

  Lust, Miserable, Shame

• Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

  Seneca the Younger

  Law, Doe, May

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• There is nothing that Nature has made necessary which is more easy than death; we are longer a-coming into the world than going out of it; and there is not any minute of our lives wherein we may not reasonably expect it. Nay, it is but a momen'ts work, the parting of soul and body. What a shame is it then to stand in fear of anything so long that is over so soon!

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Soul And Body, Long

• We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.

  Seneca the Younger

  Loss, Justice, Honor

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 462-63, Agamemnon, CXII, 1922.

• You can only acquire it successfully if you cease to feel any sense of shame.

  Seneca the Younger

  Success, Wisdom, Learning

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