Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.
"Epistles, Volume III: Epistles 93-124 (Epistle 94)". Book by Seneca translated by Richard M. Gummere, January 1925.
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Buy not what you want, but what you have need of; what you do not want is dear at a farthing.