A Quote by Seneca the Younger

It is difficult to bring people to goodness with lessons, but it is easy to do so by example.

Seneca the Younger

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Seneca the Younger
Roman - Philosopher
4 BC - 65

Lessons that come easy are not lessons at all. They are gracious acts of luck. Yet lessons learned the hard way are lessons never forgotten.

Don Williams

It is difficult in life to be good, and difficult in art to portray goodness. Perhaps we don't know much about goodness.

Iris Murdoch

It's easy to ask other people to open up and to judge them if they don't, but it's always difficult to lead by example.

Chris Harrison

Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold.

Aristotle

You can take lessons to become almost anything: flying lessons, piano lessons, skydiving lessons, acting lessons, race car driving lessons, singing lessons. But there's no class for comedy. You have to be born with it. God has to give you this gift.

Steve Harvey

My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.

Ted Danson

Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.

Nicolas Bentley

?It's not easy / It's not supposed to be easy / Most people make mistakes / Most people have to learn the hardest lessons more than once.

Po Bronson

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Anne Rice

Pause and remember - The spiritual path is not always going to be smooth and easy. There are going to be difficult situations, hardships, losses and lessons. Don't lose faith along the way. You are exactly where you need to be.

Jennifer Young

It is easy for men to give advice, but difficult for one's self to follow; we have an example in physicians: for their patients they order a strict regime, for themselves, on going to bed, they do all that they have forbidden to others.

Philemon

wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state

Socrates

Education makes a people easy to lead but difficult to drive easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness.

Pope Benedict XVI

If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect.