It isn’t having too little that makes you poor. It’s wanting more.
Where this comes from
Seneca was one of the richest men in Rome, and he wrote this to Lucilius nearly 2,000 years ago. A person who keeps wanting more is never satisfied, he said, however much they already have.
How you could say it to a five-year-old
“You wish you had ten. I get it. A moment ago, three made you so happy.”
Seneca, Letters 2.6. We put these lines into plain English ourselves, staying close to the original and to public-domain translations.
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