Home / Today / Seneca

Today’s Stoic
The rich man is not the one who has the most, but the one who needs the least.
Seneca · Letters from a Stoic · paraphrase
What it means today

Wealth measured in possessions is fragile; wealth measured in low needs is portable. A person with few needs is rich anywhere, and hard to ruin.

Try this todayName one need you can quietly lower today, and notice the freedom it gives you.
Today’s questionWhat would feel rich to me, if I measured wealth in needs instead of things?
XFacebookWhatsAppShare today’s Stoic
Advertisement

Related Stoic ideas

← Back to today’s Stoic

Advertisement