Seneca the Younger Quotes About Kindness

• He is ungrateful who denies that he has received a kindness which has been bestowed upon him; he is ungrateful who conceals it; he is ungrateful who makes no return for it; most ungrateful of all is he who forgets it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Ungrateful, Return

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 393-94, De Beneficiis, III. 1, 1922.

• You want to live-but do you know how to live? You are scared of dying-and, tell me, is the kind of life you lead really any different from being dead?

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Death, Kindness

• I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness

• 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 that does good to another does good also to himself.

  Seneca the Younger

  Teamwork, Kindness, Philosophical

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• 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.

• It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Grateful, Men

• Human nature is so constituted that insults sink deeper than kindnesses; the remembrance of the latter soon passes away, while that of the former is treasured in the memory.

  Seneca the Younger

  Memories, Kindness, Remembrance

• The things which we hold in our hands, which we see with our eyes, and which our avarice hugs, are transitory, they may be taken from us by ill luck or by violence; but a kindness lasts even after the loss of that by means of which it was bestowed; for it is a good deed, which no violence can undo.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Taken, Mean

• People pay the doctor for his trouble; for his kindness they still remain in his debt.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Doctors, Practice Of Medicine

• Persistent kindness conquers the ill-disposed.

  Seneca the Younger

  Kindness, Conquer, Ill

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