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That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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