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Let's see how those who decide to do anything that a person can do to offend a person will insult me?.. Reproach me for poverty? “But she is my excess.” I would gladly take off these rags too, so that I could walk through the thorns of life without them! I would willingly, as soon as possible, take off this heavy chiton 5 in order to get a lighter one (1). It is common for a poor person not to think highly of himself, because some rich people have no worries about their means of living (2). You are cheerful even in illness, you live in luxury, 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 then would I prefer a rich man, but servile to passions, to a poor and wise man, when I agree to prefer a man, strong in strength, but crazy 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, not having a single medicine, is very healthy: which of them will you please? Obviously healthy. And I know that everyone will say the same. Likewise, a person who needs a little, although he is very poor, is preferred to the rich in both money and passions (2). A poor person is much stronger in strength than a wealthy person. And God, equalizing His gifts, gave strength of strength to the poor, and medicine to the rich. Does the poor man work and sweat? - This depletes him of excess substances. He endures hunger and cold, is scorched by the sun at midday, gets tired from walking, is burdened with burdens, gets wet in the rain, takes simple and not complex food at the right time, does not even know those seductive foods that cooks and ministers of luxury extract from the earth and sea in order to offer men a woman's meal. Tumors, colds, pain in the legs and joints, heaviness, pallor, relaxation - these are the property of the rich, these are the fruits of satiety. The rich do not find pleasure in what they have; They often look for someone to leave their burdens to, and they envy healthy people who are poorer than them. These unfortunate lucky ones do not benefit from anything. Gold, expensive stones, all kinds of jewelry, multi-colored clothes, picturesque images shining in purple on the walls, on the ceilings and on the stones with which the floors are lined; silver, partly hidden in the bowels of the earth - rightly confined in the same coffins from which it was taken, and partly displayed and shining at feasts; horses, carpets, chariots, charioteers, dogs, hunters looking for animal tracks; all pleasures for the evil master are the belly, everything pleasing to the larynx, which collects tribute from everything; bed-keepers, door-keepers, speakers, sleepers, flower bearers, sprinkling incense, wiping plates, tasting food, producing shadows, observing gestures; bathhouse attendants testing the hot water with the tips of their fingers, shorn like women - this delight for the eyes - these are the accessories of a rich coffin, written with fingernails! But the poor man stands firm; Even if he falls, not suddenly, exhausted by illness or many years, he will not cause any trouble to his friends. He will die like a lion, roaring, and the dead for the most part are more magnificent than the great rich. What else can be said about contempt 6, about anger, about frenzy, about insolence, about drunkenness, about unbridled laughter, about shameful speeches, about neglect of God, kinship, friendship? All this does not happen to the same extent in the poor as in the rich, because wealth brings with it contempt, and contempt follows destruction. But the poor, as we most often see, do not raise his head up because he lives in oppression; especially if the fear of God comes to the rescue - this strong mentor to all good. Now make a brief review, compare one with the other and assign a true value to both lives, if it does not seem offensive to you that along with you there are poor people, breathing the same air, bearing the same name, thinking of living under the same roof, sailing on the same ship (2). It’s hard to live in poverty, but it’s even worse to get rich unjustly (2). That is, a spiritual body in order to put on a spiritual body (see 1 Cor. 15:44). Contempt - arrogance, pride, arrogance. – Approx. ed. You might be interested in: