Stoic quotes on wealth

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

One man and one alone shall we consider rich, the man who has acquired the ability to want for nothing always and everywhere.

Hunger costs but little; squeamishness costs much. Poverty is contented with fulfilling pressing needs.

Money never made a man rich; on the contrary, it always smites men with a greater craving for itself.

For the fault is not in the wealth, but in the mind itself. That which had made poverty a burden to us, has made riches also a burden.

Riches, I say, are not a good thing; for if they were, they would make men good…

If you would know how little evil there is in poverty, compare the faces of the poor with those of the rich; the poor man smiles more often and more genuinely…

The possession of riches means even greater agony of spirit than the acquisition of riches.

Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry?

…if you are capable of feeling no need of wealth, know that you are better off, and have something worth far more than wealth.

I came to despise riches, not because of their uselessness, but because of their pettiness.

It is the sign of an unstable mind not to be able to endure riches.

…simplicity in my way of living, far removed from the habits of the rich.