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You must live below your means. The Roman elite were constantly living beyond their means. Leaders like Cicero lived lavishly. He owned something like nine different villas at the same time.

Other Romans believed the path to political power lay in essentially bribing the public with extravagant games and public spectacles.

Julius Caesar was constantly spending money he didn't have to impress people he didn't respect. Even the Roman Empire itself was constantly overspending, leaving it to more austere emperors like Marcus Aurelius to pay down the country's debts by selling off palace furnishings.

Seneca for his part wrote eloquently about the meaninglessness of wealth and the importance of the simple life. And yet money is partly what attracted him to Nero's service.

In 13 years working for a man who was clearly deranged and evil, Seneca became one of Rome's richest men. This afforded him an incredible lifestyle.

He threw enormous parties he accumulated huge land holdings and impressive estates but his taste for the finer things meant swallowing a bitter moral pill and eventually this association cost him his reputation and his life.

If only Seneca and these other spend thrift Romans could have listened to the simple language in Cato the Elders on agriculture, one of the oldest works in the entire Latin language.

There Cato, the great grandfather of the stoic Cato the Younger speaks of the importance of managing your money and your tastes.

A farm is like a man he wrote however great the income if there is extravagance but little is left. His advice to the aspiring farmer is to build a house within their means to put your money into your farm into something that generates returns not something that impresses your neighbors or assages your ego.

It was better he said to cultivate the selling habit not the buying habit selling meant you were making buying meant you are consuming how does a business concede by things going out the door not in the door.

It's easy to acquire it's hard to say no it's tough to develop limits and to figure out what enough is but like Cato said and Seneca's fate painfully illustrates if you can't do that eventually there will be nothing left.

And nowhere to go.

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