На любомудрую нищету
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1. Even in illness you are cheerful and luxurious, if only you are rich; True, you feel evil, but you also have a cure for the disease. And the other is poor, but abstinent. And he is three times blessed, because he has neither evil nor a cure for evil. And I would prefer a rich man, but servile to passions, to a poor and wise man, when I would agree to prefer a man strong in strength, but mad in his mind, to a man of sound mind, although weak in strength.
Let one, having a lot of medicine against suffering, be seriously ill; and the other, without having any medicine, is very healthy: which of them will you please? Obviously healthy; but I know that everyone will say the same thing. Likewise, a person who needs a little, although he is very poor, is preferred to the rich in both money and passions.
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