Seneca the Younger Quotes About Giving

• The hour which gives us life begins to take it away.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Giving, Hours

• Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Attitude, Adversity

• We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Caring, Giving

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• Genius always gives its best at first; prudence, at last.

  Seneca the Younger

  Science, Giving, Firsts

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• Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Charity, Philanthropy

  "Troades", 697 in "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (pp. 595-596), 1922.

• Let no man give advice to others that he has not first given himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Christian, Men, Giving

• When some state or other offered Alexander a part of its territory and half of all its property he told them that 'he hadn't come to Asia with the intention of accepting whatever they cared to give him, but of letting them keep whatever he chose to leave them.' Philosophy, likewise, tells all other occupations: 'It's not my intention to accept whatever time is leftover from you; you shall have, instead, what I reject.' Give your whole mind to her.

  Seneca the Younger

  Time, Philosophy, Caring

• In the meantime, cling tooth and nail to the following rule: not to give in to adversity, not to trust prosperity, and always take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Giving, Teeth

• Shun no toil to make yourself remarkable by some talent or other; yet do not devote yourself to one branch exclusively. Strive to get clear notions about all. Give up no science entirely; for science is but one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Education, Giving Up, Science

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• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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• Philosophy is good advice, and no one gives good advice at the top of his lungs.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophy, Giving, Advice

• He that makes himself famous by his eloquence, justice or arms illustrates his extraction, let it be never so mean; and gives inestimable reputation to his parents. We should never have heard of Sophroniscus, but for his son, Socrates; nor of Ariosto and Gryllus, if it had not been for Xenophon and Plato.

  Seneca the Younger

  Plato, Mean, Son

• Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil himself gives better wages, they soon change their party.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Party, Long

• The stomach begs and clamors, and listens to no precepts. And yet it is not an obdurate creditor; for it is dismissed with small payment if you give it only what you owe, and not as much as you can.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Creditors, Stomach

• Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Judgement, Blame

• The man who while he gives thinks of what he will get in return, deserves to be deceived.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Thinking, Giving

• Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.

  Seneca the Younger

  Anger, Giving, Judgement

• It passes in the world for greatness of mind, to be perpetually giving and loading people with bounties; but it is one thing to know how to give and another thing not to know how to keep. Give me a heart that is easy and open, but I will have no holes in it; let it be bountiful with judgment, but I will have nothing run out of it I know not how.

  Seneca the Younger

  Running, Heart, Greatness

• The book-keeping of benefits is simple: it is all expenditure; if any one returns it, that is clear gain; if he does not return it, it is not lost, I gave it for the sake of giving.

  Seneca the Younger

  Book, Simple, Giving

• 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, that's weighed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Friendship, Giving

  "Moral Letters to Lucilius (Letter LXXXI)". Book by Seneca the Younger, 1920.

• There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Generosity, Giving, Grace

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• We are as answerable for what we give as for what we receive; nay, the misplacing of a benefit is worse than the not receiving of it; for the one is another person's fault, but the other is mine.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Receiving, Benefits

• It goes far toward making a man faithful to let him understand that you think him so; and he that does but suspect I will deceive him, gives me a sort of right to do so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Faith, Men, Thinking

• To give and to lose is nothing; but to lose and to give still is the part of a great mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  Giving, Mind, Stills

• Success gives the character of honesty to some classes of wickedness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Honesty, Character, Class

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