Quod siquis vera vitam ratione gubernet,
divitiae grandes homini sunt vivere parvo
aequo animo; neque enim est umquam penuria parvi.
"But if one should guide his life by true principles, man's greatest wealth is to live on a little with contented mind; for a little is never lacking."
also translated as
"Yet were man to steer his life by sounder reasoning, he'd own abounding riches, if with mind content he lived by thrift; for never, as I guess, is there a lack of little in the world."
-Lucretius, as excerpted from The Nature of Things, Book V
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