Boast Quote by Seneca the Younger Download Open image “He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.” — Seneca the Younger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boast Doe Pedigree Praise
He who does without the praise of the crowd will not deny himself an opportunity to be his own adherent. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
He has great tranquillity of heart who cares neither for the praises nor the fault-finding of men. He will easily be content and pacified,… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
“So, he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find… — Lao Tzu Copy Share Image
He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought. — Seneca the Younger 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
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 would be a piece of ingenuousness to accuse the man of today of his lack of moral code. The accusation would leave him… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Further conceive, I beg, that a stone, while continuing in motion, should be capable of thinking and knowing, that it is endeavoring, as far… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Boasting and bravado may exist in the breast even of the coward, if he is successful through a mere lucky hit; but a just… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope. — Bernard Berenson Copy Share Image
Buonaparte has often made his boast that our fleet would be worn out by keeping the sea and that his was kept in order… — Horatio Nelson Copy Share Image
But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy, Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great: Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
