Seneca the Younger Quotes About Wealth

• Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

  Seneca the Younger

  Inspirational, Wise, Men

  "On the Good Life". 26:1,

• For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

  Seneca the Younger

  Life, Happiness, Money

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

• It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Mind, Bears

• What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

  Seneca the Younger

  Funny, Inspiring, Sarcastic

• The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.

  Seneca the Younger

  Money, Lying, Political

• The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.

  Seneca the Younger

  Spiritual, Greatest Wealth, Simplicity

• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  Seneca the Younger

  Acquisition, Riches, Faults

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

  Seneca the Younger

  Poverty, Wealth, Amount

• Golden roofs break men's rest.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Golden, Wealth

• Lack of desire is the greatest riches.

  Seneca the Younger

  Desire, Riches, Wealth

• Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.

  Seneca the Younger

  May, Wealth, Fortune

• These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Money, Fever

• What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Differences, Essentials

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