Seneca the Younger Quotes About Conscience
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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.
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The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.
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Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a low value on everything else.
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The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
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The first petition that we are to make to Almighty God is for a good conscience, the next for health of mind, and then of body.
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The origin of all mankind was the same; it is only a clear and good conscience that makes a man noble, for that is derived from heaven itself.
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A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
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