Seneca the Younger Quotes About Poverty

• 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

• It is only luxury and avarice that make poverty grievous to us; for it is a very small matter that does our business, and when we have provided against cold, hunger, and thirst, all the rest is but vanity and excess.

  Seneca the Younger

  Vanity, Luxury, Doe

• That poverty is no disaster is understood by everyone who has not yet succumbed to the madness of greed and luxury that turns everything topsy-turvy.

  Seneca the Younger

  Peace, Luxury, Greed

• Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wish, Littles, Poverty

• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Doe, Noble

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• Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Luxury, Want

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• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Spiritual, Greatest Wealth, Simplicity

• It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.

  Seneca the Younger

  Humble, Men, Poverty

• He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.

  Seneca the Younger

  Poverty, Rich, Made

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• It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

  Seneca the Younger

  Hands, Justice, Humanity

• The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Poverty, Wealth, Amount

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Business, Men, Thinking

• 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

• He has committed the crime who profits by it.

  Seneca the Younger

  Philosophical, Poverty, Crime

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• Poverty needs much, avarice everything.

  Seneca the Younger

  Needs, Poverty, Avarice

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