“To be content with what we possess is the greatest and most secure of riches.”
Marcus Tullius Cicero (-106–-43 BC) Roman philosopher and statesman
“We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.”
Variant: We are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
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Source: Aphorisms and Reflections (1901), p. 202