A passage from Seneca

Seneca, Letters to Lucilius Letter 2

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Non qui parum habet sed qui plus cupit pauper est. He is not poor who has little, but he who wants much.
Seneca·Letters to Lucilius·Letter 2·trans. Richard Gummere
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