Томас Эркарт (Thomas Urquhart)

Эпиграммы. Книга II. № 16. О тех, кто воистину богат и воистину беден

Кто о богатстве истинном радеет,
		Земного блага оценил тщету.
Кто вечно ищет большего, беднеет,
		Впадая постепенно в нищету.
Беднее человека не бывало
Стяжателя, которому всё мало.

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Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 16. Who is truly rich, and who poore

By the contempt, not value of the matter 
	Of worldly goods, true riches are possess’d; 
For our desire by seeking groweth greater: 
	And by desiring, povertie’s increass’d: 
So that on earth there can be none so poore 
As he, whose mind in plentie longs for more.

1. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 3. We ought always to thinke upon what we are to say, before we utter any thing; the speeches and talk of solid wits, being still pre∣meditated, and never using to forerunne the mind
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
3. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 7. That men are not destitute of remedies, within them∣selves against the shrewdest accidents, that can befall them
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 5. A certaine ancient philosopher did hereby insi∣nuate, how necessary a thing the administrati∣on of iustice was: and to be alwaies vigilant in the judicious di∣stribution of punishment, and recompence
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 24. No man should glory too much in the flourishing verdure of his Youth

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