Seneca the Younger Quotes About Virtue

• The greatest man is he who chooses right with the most invincible resolution; who resists to sorest temptation from within and without; who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully; who is calmest in storms, and most fearless under menaces and frowns; whose reliance on truth, on virtue, and on God is most unfaltering.

  Seneca the Younger

  Greatness, Men, Temptation

• It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vices, Virtue

• 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

• We should every night call ourselves to an account: What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abate of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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  Passion, Character, Night

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Positive, Art, Philosophy

• Virtue is nothing else than right reason

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  Philosophical, Virtue, Reason

• Of all the felicities, the most charming is that of a firm and gentle friendship. It sweetens all our cares, dispels our sorrows, and counsels us in all extremities. Nay, if there were no other comfort in it than the pare exercise of so generous a virtue, even for that single reason a man would not be without it; it is a sovereign antidote against all calamities - even against the fear of death itself.

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  Real, Exercise, Men

• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

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  Philosophical, Succeed, Virtue

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• Successful crime is dignified with the name of virtue; the good become the slaves of the wicked; might makes right; fear silences the power of the law.

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  Successful, Law, Names

• Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

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  Gratitude, Virtue, Profit

• Remove severe restraint and what will become of virtue?

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  Philosophy, Virtue, Restraint

• Virtue is shut out from no one; she is open to all, accepts all, invites all, gentlemen, freedmen, slaves, kings, and exiles; she selects neither house nor fortune; she is satisfied with a human being without adjuncts.

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  Kings, House, Gentleman

• Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.

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  Dream, People, Vices

• Virtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.

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  Happy Life, Perfect, Virtue

• 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

• Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.

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  Successful, Virtue

• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.

  Seneca the Younger

  Practice, Advice, Training

• Successful villany is called virtue.

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  Successful, Virtue

• To preserve the life of citizens, is the greatest virtue in the father of his country.

  Seneca the Younger

  Country, Father, Patriotism

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 584-87, Octavia, 444, 1922.

• If virtue precede us every step will be safe.

  Seneca the Younger

  Safe, Steps, Virtue

• As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Men, May

• Virtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by actions.

  Seneca the Younger

  Practice, Training, Firsts

• No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Virtue

• Virtue needs a director and guide. Vice can be learned even without a teacher.

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  Teacher, Vices, Directors

• Calamity is virtue's opportunity.

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  Opportunity, Virtue, Calamity

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 518-19, De Providentia, IV, 1922.

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