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How much wealth is enough?

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Seneca questions whether wealth and luxury can produce a happy life. The measure is not a fixed amount but whether possessions serve sound judgment and virtue, rather than turning into masters of our choices.

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Seneca distinguishes possessing wealth from being possessed by it. Money may be useful, but it cannot replace virtue or good judgment as the measure of a life well lived.

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