Seneca the Younger Quotes About Gratitude

• Nothing is more honorable than a grateful heart.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Appreciation

• The law of the pleasure in having done anything for another is, that the one almost immediately forgets having given, and the other remembers eternally having received.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Law, Done

• Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Thank You

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• He who receives a benefit with gratitude, repays the first installment of it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Struggle

  "On Benefits". Book by Seneca the Younger, 62 AD.

• The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Gratitude, Mind

• There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Thank You, Thanksgiving

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• See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.

  Seneca the Younger

  Thanksgiving, Gratitude, Philosophical

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• Great is he who enjoys his earthenware as if it were plate, and not less great is the man to whom all his plate is no more that earthenware.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Men, He Man

• There is no benefit so large that malignity will not lessen it; none so narrow that a good interpretation will not enlarge it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Benefits, Interpretation

• Epicurus says, "gratitude is a virtue that has commonly profit annexed to it." And where is the virtue that has not? But still the virtue is to be valued for itself, and not for the profit that attends it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Virtue, Profit

• If I only have the will to be grateful, I am so.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Grateful, Be Grateful

• There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a mind to do it. If a man borrows a paltry sum of money, there must needs be bonds and securities, and every common civility is presently charged upon account. But he who has my time thinks he owes me nothing for it, though it be a debt that gratitude itself can never repay.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Time, Men

• Let the man, who would be grateful, think of repaying a kindness, even while receiving it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Kindness, Grateful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 336-37, De Beneficiis, II. 25, 1922.

• As gratitude is a necessary, and a glorious virtue, so also it is an obvious, a cheap, and an easy one; so obvious that wherever there is life there is a place for it; so cheap, that the covetous man may be gratified without expense, and so easy that the sluggard may be so likewise without labor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Men, May

• There is as much greatness of mind in the owning of a good turn as in the doing of it; and we must no more force a requital out of season than be wanting in it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Gratitude, Greatness, Mind

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