Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
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Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
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Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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Netflix did it right and focused on all the things that have replaced the dumb, raw numbers of the Nielsen world - they embraced targeted marketing and 'brand' as a virtue higher than ratings.
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As far as I know, there is no proof whatever of the existence of an objective reality apart from our senses, and I do not see why we should accept the outside world as such solely by virtue of our senses.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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There are two restraints which God has laid upon human nature, shame and fear; shame is the weaker, and has place only in those in whom there are some reminders of virtue.
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Piety and virtue are not only delightful for the present, but they leave peace and contentment behind them.
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Every virtue is a mean between two extremes, each of which is a vice.
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Rightness in our choice of an end is secured by Moral Virtue.
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The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
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Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.
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For we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use.
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We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue.
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The life of theoretical philosophy is the best and happiest a man can lead. Few men are capable of it and then only intermittently. For the rest there is a second-best way of life, that of moral virtue and practical wisdom.
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A state of the soul is either an emotion, a capacity, or a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things.
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If a man of good natural disposition acquires Intelligence, then he excels in conduct, and the disposition which previously only resembled Virtue, will now be Virtue in the true sense. Hence just as with the faculty of forming opinions there are two qualities, Cleverness and Prudence, so also in the moral part of the soul there are two qualities, natural virtue and true Virtue; and true Virtue cannot exist without Prudence.
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I use that as my responsibility on the show, to be the pragmatist.
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The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous.
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In every sort of danger there are various ways of winning through, if one is ready to do and say anything whatever.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
