We have lost morals, justice, honor, piety and faith, and that sense of shame which, once lost, can never be restored.
Seneca the YoungerVirtue depends partly upon training and partly upon practice; you must learn first, and then strengthen your learning by action. If this be true, not only do the doctrines of wisdom help us but the precepts also, which check and banish our emotions by a sort of official decree.
Seneca the YoungerVirtue is that perfect good, which is the complement of a happy life; the only immortal thing that belongs to mortality.
Seneca the YoungerThat moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
Seneca the Younger