Money Quotes by Seneca the Younger

21 Money quotes by Seneca the Younger

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Seneca’s Stoic lens turns the pursuit of money into a lesson on virtue and self‑control. Across 21 short passages he reminds readers that true wealth lies beyond material excess, urging a balanced, reflective approach to financial matters.

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... frugality makes a poor man rich.

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Money has never yet made anyone rich.

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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!

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Self-denial is the best riches.

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Fidelity bought with money is overcome by money.

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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

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Fortune can take away riches, but not courage…

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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

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Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land.

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If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich.

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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

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With parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.

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It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they…

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It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to…

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The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is…

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Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil…

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“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while…

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There is nothing that we can properly call our own but our time, and yet everybody fools us out of it who…

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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

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Money has yet to make anyone rich.

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Misfortune is the test of a person's merit.

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Hesitation is the best cure for anger. The first blows of anger are heavy, but if it waits, it will think again.

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