Seneca on What Makes a Person Poor

This is one of the most important lessons of Stoicism

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“It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the man who hankers for more.” Seneca the Younger, in Letters from a Stoic

This sentence from Letter II is one of Seneca’s most often quoted ones. Unless you’re desperately poor, you feel Seneca’s talking straight at you.