The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
Seneca the YoungerNothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed and rightly.
Seneca the YoungerWith parsimony a little is sufficient; without it nothing is sufficient; but frugality makes a poor man rich.
Seneca the YoungerWhat difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.
Seneca the Younger