Seneca the Younger Quotes About Poverty
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Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.
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He has committed the crime who profits by it.
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It is not the man who has little, but he who desires more, that is poor.
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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.
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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.
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There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.
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The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
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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.
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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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It is not poverty that we praise, it is the man whom poverty cannot humble or bend.
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He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich.
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Poverty needs much, avarice everything.
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Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
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Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.
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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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