Seneca the Younger Quotes About Character
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I never come back home with the same moral character I went out with; something or other becomes unsettled where I had achieved internal peace; some one or other of the things I had put to flight reappears on the scene.
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A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.
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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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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.
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No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.
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No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.
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Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.
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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.
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