Seneca the Younger Quotes

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Money doesn't talk, it swears.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

Success and money can really be quite blinding.

Ignorance, the root and stem of all evil.

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

The seven blunders that human society commits and cause all the violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principles.

Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world.

All power will infallibly draw wealth to itself by some means or other.

The greatest enemy a man can have is his prosperity.

Contemporary Americans were so prosperous, so happily distracted by such a richness of vivid entertainments, they were reluctant to have their fun diminished by acknowledging that anything existed with fangs and fierce appetites. If now and then they recognized a wolf, they threw a bone to it and convinced themselves it was a dog.

The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

Big money is not a good thing for a little soul: it will only ensnare his feet, and he will fall to his ruin. Wealth is safe only for those who have a wealth of wisdom.

There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.

My native land is a slave of heathenism, men's god is their belly, and they live only for the present. The richer a man, the holier.

Prosperity often leads to pride, which leads to sin.

You think Trump cares if you leave? He wants power, not prosperity.

Nothing is more dangerous than to be blinded by prosperity.

The smell of money is good, come whence it may. [Alluding to Vespasian's tax on ordure.]

Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of gold; by gold love is procured.

The habitual living in prosperity is most injurious.

Money is the source of the greatest vice, and that nation which is most rich, is most wicked.

A strange species we are; we can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick.