It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Freedom can't be bought for nothing. If you hold her precious, you must hold all else of little worth. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Principles are like seeds; they are little things which do much good, if the mind that receives them has the right attitudes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
What must be shall be; and that which is a necessity to him that struggles, is little more than choice to him… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Greatness stands upon a precipice, and if prosperity carries a man never so little beyond his poise, it overbears and dashes him… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The wise man then followed a simple way of life-which is hardly surprising when you consider how even in this modern age… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Precepts are like seeds; they are little things which do much good; if the mind which receives them has a disposition, it… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The time will come when diligent research over periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden...Many discoveries are reserved for… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is essential to make oneself used to putting up with a little. Even the wealthy and the well provided are continually… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication.... Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths.... But in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who has a… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men trust rather to their eyes than to their ears; the effect of precepts is therefore slow and tedious, whilst that of examples is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Men can be divided into 2 groups: one that goes ahead and achieves something, and one that comes after and criticizes. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
He who does not want to die should not want to live. For life is tendered to us with the proviso of death. Life… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
