On nature as our best provider
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Book Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Book Description: The final volume of Seneca's moral letters. Common Stoic themes emerge again and again: the unreliability of fortune, the ability to form Stoic resolve, and the importance of virtue.
9.
Money never made a man rich; on the contrary, it always smites men with a greater craving for itself.
Do you ask the reason for this?
He who possesses more begins to be able to possess still more.
To sum up, you may hale forth for our inspection any of the millionaires whose names are told off when one speaks of Crassus and Licinus.
Let him bring along his rating and his present property and his future expectations, and let him add them all together: such a man, according to my belief, is poor; according to yours, he may be poor some day.
Book: Moral Letters Vol III
Subtitle: Seneca's timeless letters of advice and wisdom.
Author: Seneca
Chapter: On nature as our best provider
Location: Chapter 119, Section 9
Content:
9.
Money never made a man rich; on the contrary, it always smites men with a greater craving for itself.
Do you ask the reason for this?
He who possesses more begins to be able to possess still more.
To sum up, you may hale forth for our inspection any of the millionaires whose names are told off when one speaks of Crassus and Licinus.
Let him bring along his rating and his present property and his future expectations, and let him add them all together: such a man, according to my belief, is poor; according to yours, he may be poor some day.