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Given Quotes by Seneca the Younger
- Let him who has given a favor be silent; let he who has received it tell it.
- What should a wise person do when given a blow? Same as Cato when he was attacked; not fire up or revenge the insult., or…
- ...the geometrician teaches me how to work out the size of my estates rather than how to work out how much a man needs in…
- Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not…
- That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
- Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.
- The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift,…
- The customs of that most criminal nation (Israel) have gained such strength that they have now been received in all lands. The conquered have given…
- God has given some gifts to the whole human race, from which no one is excluded.
- This is the law of benefits between men; the one ought to forget at once what was given, and the other ought never to forget…
- Time is the one thing that is given to everyone in equal measure.
- Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
- A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
- Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship; but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him…
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