Seneca the Younger Quotes About Envy

• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Loss, Evil

• When I think over what I have said, I envy dumb people.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Thinking, Envy

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• It is the practice of the multitude to bark at eminent men, as little dogs do at strangers.

  Seneca the Younger

  Dog, Men, Practice

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 226-27, Of a Happy Life, Chapter XIX, 1922.

• 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

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