All SENECA THE YOUNGER Quotes about “Character”

“A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”
“A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.”
“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.”
“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.”
“There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.”
“There is the need for someone against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler, you won't make the crooked straight.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.”
“No one should feel pride in anything that is not his own.”
“Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.”
“Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.”
“No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.”
“No one can long hide behind a mask; the pretense soon lapses into the true character.”
“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.”
“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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