“What could a man want that is better than poverty? I do not say misery, any more than I mean the work without hope of the modern proletarian. But I do not see that one could desire more than poverty with an active leisure.”
~ Albert Camus
Seneca on Poverty
“I do not regard a man as poor, if the little which remains is enough for him.”
~ Seneca
Seneca on Poverty
Contented poverty is an honourable estate.
~ Seneca / Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium