Quote

Those who boast of their descent, brag on what they owe to others.

Seneca the Younger

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Seneca the Younger
Aphorist
Philosopher
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Statesperson
Writer
Córdoba
Andalusia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Seneca the Younger
the Younger Seneca
Lucio Anneo Seneca
Annaeus Seneca
Lucius Annaeus Seneca minor
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Iunior
Boast
Others
Brag
Ancestry
Descent

More quotes by Seneca the Younger

Image
The key to getting everything you want is to never put all your begs in one ask-it!
Seneca the Younger
Image
The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.
Seneca the Younger
Image
It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
Seneca the Younger
Image
We sought therefore to amend our will, and not to suffer it through despite to languish long time in error.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Death falls heavily on that man who, known too well to others, dies in ignorance of himself.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Extreme remedies are never the first to be resorted to.
Seneca the Younger
Image
We learn not for life but for the debating-room.
Seneca the Younger
Image
There's one blessing only, the source and cornerstone of beatitude: confidence in self.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.
Seneca the Younger
Image
He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
Seneca the Younger
Image
A well-governed appetite is a great part of liberty
Seneca the Younger
Image
A good conscience fears no witness, but a guilty conscience is solicitous even in solitude. If we do nothing but what is honest, let all the world know it. But if otherwise, what does it signify to have nobody else know it, so long as I know it myself? Miserable is he who slights that witness.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The Fates guide those who go willingly. Those who do not, they drag.
Seneca the Younger
Image
To be able to endure odium is the first art to be learned by those who aspire to power.
Seneca the Younger
Image
It is not how many books thou hast, but how good careful reading profiteth, while that which is full of variety delighteth.
Seneca the Younger
Image
The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.
Seneca the Younger
Image
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 been given without our knowledge.
Seneca the Younger
Image
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca the Younger
Image
No one's so old that he mayn't with decency hope for one more day.
Seneca the Younger