Seneca the Younger Quotes About Gold

• Gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hero, Adversity, Men

• For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.

  Seneca the Younger

  Freedom, Men, Simplicity

• Fire proves gold, adversity proves men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Adversity, Men, Fire

• It is remarkable that Providence has given us all things for our advantage near at hand; but iron, gold, and silver, being both the instruments of blood and slaughter and the price of it, nature has hidden in the bowels of the earth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Blood, Hands, Iron

• Fire tests gold, suffering tests brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Courage, Adversity, Men

• Fire tries gold, misery tries brave men.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Fire, Brave

  "De Providentia", V, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 517-18, 1922.

• Study rather to fill your mind than your coffers; knowing that gold and silver were originally mingled with dirt, until avarice or ambition parted them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Ambition, Knowing, Mind

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