Poverty needs much, avarice everything. Seneca the Younger More Quotes by Seneca the Younger More Quotes From Seneca the Younger Levity of behavior is the bane of all that is good and virtuous. Seneca the Younger levity behaviour behavior A benefit is estimated according to the mind of the giver. Seneca the Younger giver benefits mind He who blushes at riding in a rattletrap, will boast when he rides in style. Seneca the Younger riding boast style A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort. Seneca the Younger companionship crowds comfort Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink. Seneca the Younger companionship drink should The whole discord of this world consists in discords. Seneca the Younger contention discord world We most often go astray on a well trodden and much frequented road. Seneca the Younger wells Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. Seneca the Younger cures failing reason Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself. Seneca the Younger thyself neighbor ifs A hated government does not long survive. Seneca the Younger government doe long The largest part of goodness is the will to become good. Seneca the Younger goodness It is not goodness to be better than the worst. Seneca the Younger worst goodness The foundation of the true joy is in the conscience. Seneca the Younger true-joy foundation joy There is nothing more miserable and foolish than anticipation. Seneca the Younger miserable anticipation expectations Economy is in itself a great source of revenue. Seneca the Younger economy revenue source The evil which assails us is not in the localities we inhabit but in ourselves. We lack strength to endure the least task, being incapable of suffering pain, powerless to enjoy pleasure, impatient with everything. How many invoke death when, after having tried every sort of change, they find themselves reverting to the same sensations, unable to discover any new experience. Seneca the Younger new-experiences pain evil The fates lead the willing, and drag the unwilling. Seneca the Younger drag willing fate What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. Seneca the Younger sweat nature easy Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp. Seneca the Younger death Vice may be learnt, even without a teacher Seneca the Younger learning vices teacher