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 abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Quote by Seneca

Topics: Self Reflection Quotes

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be...

No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be...

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

When we are well, we all have good advice for those who are ill.

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that...

Life's like a play; it's not the length but the excellence of the acting that...

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.

If you wish to be loved; love

If you wish to be loved; love

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

A sword is never a killer, it is a tool in the killer's hands

The belly will not listen to advice

The belly will not listen to advice

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts...

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts...

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death.

Courage leads to heaven; fear to death.

You are your choices.

You are your choices.

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not...

Sadness usually results from one of the following causes either when a man does not...

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Fear drives the wretched to prayer

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Father, I desire to please You in everything I do. I declare that You are...

Father, I desire to please You in everything I do. I declare that You are...