Seneca the Younger Quotes About Praise
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I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
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He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.
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It's the admirer and the watcher who provoke us to all the inanities we commit.
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Praise thyself never.
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He deserves praise who does not what he may, but what he ought.
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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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He who boasts of his pedigree praises that which does not belong to him.
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True praise comes often even to the lowly; false praise only to the strong.
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You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives praise.
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Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods.
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