Delightful Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Delightful Favors Grateful Gratefulness Gratitude Men Ungrateful
Gratitude, in most men, is only a strong and secret hope of greater favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Blessings we enjoy daily, and for the most of them, because they be so common, men forget to pay their praises. [and miss much… — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it. — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
It is a pleasure appropriate to man, for him to save a fellow-man, and gratitude is acquired in no better way. — Ovid Copy Share Image
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my… — William Bartram Copy Share Image
The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. It is a… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul; and the heart of man knoweth none more fragrant. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come? — Ursula Curtiss Copy Share Image
Gratitude is merely the secret of hope of further favors. — Francios De La Rochecoucauld Copy Share Image
Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld 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
The more perfect the sight is the more delightful the beautiful object. The more perfect the appetite, the sweeter the food. The more musical… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure. — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
“I never met a pig I didn't like. All pigs are intelligent, emotional, and sensitive souls. They all love company. They all crave contact… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence. — Pierre Loti Copy Share Image
Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Someone on the internet referred to me as 'that horrible little man who's replacing Rob Lowe', which is hurtful, because I think of myself… — Joshua Malina Copy Share Image
Once you get yourself on that path where you're willing to find something delightful in laundry and in dishwashers, it means that you train… — Ian Bogost Copy Share Image
There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
A solitary American monk named Thomas Berry writes that in our relationship to nature, we have been autistic for centuries. Wrapped tightly in our… — Janine Benyus Copy Share Image
In the mind engaged in struggling with hardship, one always finds something delightful. The sorrow of disappointment arises in the complacency of satisfaction. — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
We are at the moment looking at space as something to be entered by the tremendous thrust of a rocket because that is the… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image