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

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

In the original Latin

Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est.

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Provenance
Current citation
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Original citation
Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

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