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  • If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

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    "Ancilla to the Pre-Socratic Philosophers: A Complete Translation of the Fragments in Diels Fragmente Der Vorsokratiker", translated by Kathleen Freeman, Harvard University Press, (p. 170), 1948.
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