Seneca the Younger Quotes About Desire

• That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Needs, Want

• It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.

  Seneca the Younger

  Character, Personality, Desire

• The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.

  Seneca the Younger

  Progress, Desire, Greater

• He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!

  Seneca the Younger

  Kings, Fear, Desire

• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Spiritual, Greatest Wealth, Simplicity

• All I desire is, that my poverty may not be a burden to myself, or make me so to others; and that is the best state of fortune that is neither directly necessitous nor far from it. A mediocrity of fortune, with gentleness of mind, will preserve us from fear or envy; which is a desirable condition; for no man wants power to do mischief.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Envy, Mind

• I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Done, Care

• If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.

  Seneca the Younger

  Judging, Desire, Sin

• It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Business, Men, Thinking

• Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Riches, Wealth

• Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.

  Seneca the Younger

  Work Out, Desire, Misery

• No one can have all he desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire

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