“He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.”

—  Horace , book Epistles

Book I, epistle xii, line 4
Epistles (c. 20 BC and 14 BC)

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Pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus. si ventri bene, si lateri est pedibusque tuis, nil divitiae poterunt regales addere maius.

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