The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Remember, not one penny can we take with us into the unknown land. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
If you live according to nature, you never will be poor; if according to the world's caprice, you will never be rich. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us. — 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
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is the mind that makes us rich and happy, in what condition soever we are, and money signifies no more to… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
Money does all things for reward. Some are pious and honest as long as they thrive upon it, but if the devil… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
“Just as great and princely wealth is scattered in a moment when it comes into the hands of a bad owner, while… — 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… — 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
