Ancestry Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ancestry Boast Boasts Boasts Descent Deeds Descent Descent Praises Family Praise Praises Praises Deed
He that is proud eats up himself; pride in his glass, his trumpet, his chronicle; and whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the greatest possible praise to be praised by a man who is himself deserving of praise — Latin Proverb Copy Share Image
That man, we may be sure, is a person of true worth, whom those who envy him most are yet forced to praise. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human… — George Madison Adams Copy Share Image
He does much who loves God much, and he does much who does his deed well. — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
Tell of his wondrous faithfulness, And sound his power abroad; Sing the sweet promise of his grace, And the performing God. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present. The acknowledgment of those virtues on which conscience congratulates us is a tribute… — Samuel Johnson 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
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Blood is a destiny. One's genius descends in the stream from long lines of ancestry. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
My life shall be free and broad and great, and I will not be the slave to the sense delights which chained my ancient… — Jack London Copy Share Image
Being a mixed-blood person of Ojibway and European ancestry, I always found that I only heard one side of the story - that was… — Joseph Boyden Copy Share Image
Bird taxonomy is a difficult field because of the severe anatomical constraints imposed by flight. There are only so many ways to design a… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, the sea, and fatty foods. — Kyle MacLachlan Copy Share Image
“I have always found it difficult not to be moved by Jerusalem, even when I hated it—and God knows I have hated it for… — Susan Abulhawa Copy Share Image
I've never felt grounded because of my ancestry or my gender. I think until women get away from that they're not going to be… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
The function of the artist is to disturb. His duty is to arouse the sleeper, to shake the complacent pillars of the world. He… — Norman Bethune Copy Share Image
Both the ancestry and posterity of Grief go further than the ancestry and posterity of Joy. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
