“Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.”

As quoted by Seneca (Epistles, 94)

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Emas non quod opus est, sed quod necesse est. Quod non opus est, asse carum est.

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politician, writer and economist (0234-0149) -234–-149 BC

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