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https://digi.vatlib.it/view/MSS_Vat.gr.1950.pt.2/0256 ἡ πενία μετρουμένη τῷ τῆς φύσεως τέλει μέγας ἐστὶ πλοῦτος· πλοῦτος δὲ μὴ ὁριζόμενος μεγάλη ἐστὶ πενία. Poverty is great wealth if measured by the goals of nature, and wealth is abject poverty if not limited by the goals of nature. (Saint-Andre) This saying (U477) is also attested in Seneca's Letters (4:10): (Quote from Seneca) Bailey also cites Lucretius 5.1117-1119, as echoing this saying: Yet were man to steer His life by sounder reasoning…