These individulas have riches just as we say that we 'have a fever,' when really the fever has us.
Seneca the YoungerFor many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
Seneca the YoungerIf true, the Pythagorean principles as to abstain from flesh, foster innocence; if ill-founded they at least teach us frugality, and what loss have you in losing your cruelty? It merely deprives you of the food of lions and vultures...let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.
Seneca the Younger