Seneca the Younger Quotes About Desire
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Lack of desire is the greatest riches.
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He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
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The greater part of progress is the desire to progress.
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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this -- that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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No one can have all he desires.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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If we desire to judge justly, we must persuade ourselves that none of us is without sin.
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Do you desire not to be angry? Be not inquisitive. He who inquires what is said of him only works out his own misery.
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I will have a care of being a slave to myself, for it is a perpetual, a shameful, and the heaviest of all servitudes; and this may be done by moderate desires.
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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.
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It is easy enough to arouse in a listener a desire for what is honorable; for in every one of us nature has laid the foundations or sown the seeds of the virtues. We are born to them all, all of us, and when a person comes along with the necessary stimulus, then those qualities of the personality are awakened, so to speak, from their slumber.
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