Seneca the Younger Quotes About Joy

• 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

  Men, Joy, Littles

• My joy in learning is partly that it enables me to teach.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Education, Teaching

• Learn how to feel joy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Happiness, Joy, Feels

• True joy is a serene and sober motion; and they are miserably out so that take laughing for rejoicing; the seat of it is within, and there is no cheerfulness like the resolutions of a brave mind.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Joy, Laughing, Brave

• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  Seneca the Younger

  Death, Men, Joy

• Home joys are blessed of heaven.

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  Blessed, Home, Joy

• I know that nothing comes to pass but what God appoints; our fate is decreed, and things do not happen by chance, but every man's portion of joy and sorrow is predetermined.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Destiny

• The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Joy, Joy, Foundation

• We are born to lose and to perish, to hope and to fear, to vex ourselves and others; and there is no antidote against a common calamity but virtue; for the foundation of true joy is in the conscience.

  Seneca the Younger

  True Joy, Foundation, Vex

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