Seneca the Younger Quotes

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I always want more.

To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible.

Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.

I'm not overly greedy.

Our culture highlights the desire to always have more, even when we should be grateful for what we have.

Can people who hunger so desperately for what other people have ever have enough?

No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.

Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants.

The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

You don't find happiness by being able to buy everything you want, whenever you want it.

My definition of poor are those who need too much. Because those who need too much are never satisfied.

Whoever desires is always poor.

Those who want nothing are apt to forget how many there are who want every thing.

Those who constantly want something will never feel happy.

Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest.

What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.

If you desire many things, many things will seem few.

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.

Poverty wants some, luxury many, and avarice all things.

True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing.

People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it.

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.