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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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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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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It is not in virtue of its liberty that the human will attains to grace, it is much rather by grace that it attains to liberty.
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Your true self is a treasure of all divine virtues.
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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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Virtue lives when Beauty dies.
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I am only strong enough for a life of partial virtue.
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We cannot have right virtue without right conditions.
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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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Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.
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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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Did Charity prevail, the press would prove A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
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Renunciation-is a piercing Virtue-The letting go A Presence-for an Expectation-.
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Washington's character was rock solid. He came to stand for the new nation and its republican virtues, which was why he became our first President by unanimous choice.
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The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
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Virtue with some is nothing but successful temerity.
