Letters from a Stoic

by Seneca

Furthermore, if you will pay close heed to the problem, you will find that the largest portion of our life passes while we are doing ill, a goodly share while we are doing nothing, and the whole while we are doing that which is not to the purpose.

I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.