How to Do the Right Thing Quotes

“I examine my entire day and go back over what I have done and said, hiding nothing from myself, passing nothing by. For why should I fear any consequence from my mistakes, when I am able to say, “See that you do not do it again—but now I forgive you.”
― Seneca, How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly

“I will keep constant watch over myself and—most usefully—will put each day up for review. For this is what makes us evil—that none of us looks back upon our own lives. We reflect upon only that which we are about to do. And yet our plans for the future descend from the past.”
― Seneca, How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly

“Anticipate that you must put up with many things: no one is astonished that he is cold in winter, is he? or seasick on the sea, or shoved in the street? The mind faces bravely the things it is prepared to encounter.”
― Seneca, How to Do the Right Thing: An Ancient Guide to Treating People Fairly