Seneca the Younger Quotes About Wealth
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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.
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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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The shortest road to wealth lies in the contempt of wealth.
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What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.
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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.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
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Fortune may rob us of our wealth, not of our courage.
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Golden roofs break men's rest.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
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It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
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