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

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

Seneca the Younger

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Topic

Acquisitiveness Desire Materialism Attachment (Buddhism)

Author

Seneca the Younger

Source

Epistles (Seneca the Younger)

Medium

Letter

Language

Latin

Time

65 60s 1st century

Era

Classical antiquity

Occupation

Stoic Philosopher Writer

From

Italy Europe Roman Empire

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Original Citation

Seneca the Younger. Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium [Moral Letters to Lucilius]. c. 65 AD.

Current Citation

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Letters on Ethics, translated by Margaret Graver and A. A. Long. University of Chicago Press, 2017.

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Medium
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Genre
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Statement Type
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Time
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Current Citation

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