He is not poor who has enough of things to use. If it is well with your belly, chest and feet, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.

pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus,
si ventri bene, si lateri est pedibusque tuis, nil
divitiae poterunt regales addere maius.

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Horace. Epistularum liber primus [First Book of Letters]. 20 BC, bk. 1, epistle 12.

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Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 1, epistle 12.