He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right." "True happiness is ... to enjoy the present" "It is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
