It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend. — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it. — 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
That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that… — 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
