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 Second Booke. № 20. Riches affoord to vertue more matter to worke upon, then povertie can doe
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 43. That inconveniences ought to be regarded to before hand
3. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 41. Concerning those, who marry for beauty, and wealth without regard of vertue
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 22. Why covetous, and too ambitious men prove not so thankfull, as others for received favours
5. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 4. How abject a thing it is, for a man to have bin long in the world without giving any proofe either by vertue, or learning, that he hath beene at all

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