Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 2. Those that have greatest estates are not alwayes the wealthiest men

THey're richer, who diminish their desires:
Though their possessions be not amplified,
Then Monarchs: who in owning large Empires,
Have minds, that never will be satisfied;
For he is poore, that wants what he would have:
And rich, who having nought, doth nothing crave.

1. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 17. The expression of a contented mind in povertie
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 23. We ought not to regard the contumelies, and calumnies of Lyars, and profane men
3. 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
4. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 30. That wise men, to speak properly, are the most powerfull men in the world
5. Epigrams. The First Booke. № 24. That they may be alike rich, who are not alike abun∣dantly stored with worldly commodities

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