Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

I've lived very well all my life, even when I had no money, and there's very little I can't afford.

I am fortunate to have enough money not to have to worry about the necessities of life. Beyond that, I try to think about money as little as possible.

I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.

Me, I don't need money.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

It is not the greatness of a man's means that makes him independent, so much as the smallness of his wants.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Don't run after shows and money.

I'm happy without money.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

If there is any one thing that will bring peace and contentment into the human heart, and into the family, it is to live within our means.

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

Some have too much, yet still do crave; I little have, and seek no more. They are but poor, though much they have, And I am rich with little store.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

My material life is simple.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

The key point to understand is that prosperity is an internal experience, not an external state, and it is an experience that is not tied to having a certain amount of money.

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

I never wanted to take a job because I needed money, and I never have.

He chose to be rich by making his wants few, and supplying them himself.

I drive one car. I own one house. That's enough for me.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.