Stoicism for Inner Peace

by Einzelgänger

Moreover, wealth can be a great source of misery if we attach great importance to it. Not only will we fear being poor; we’ll also feel poor when we meet someone wealthier than ourselves.

“Suppose that you hold wealth to be a good: poverty will then distress you, and, which is most pitiable, it will be an imaginary poverty. For you may be rich, and nevertheless, because your neighbour is richer, you suppose yourself to be poor exactly by the same amount in which you fall short of your neighbour.” Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Moral letters to Lucilius, 104.9