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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7.06.2007
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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 First Booke. № 19. Ingratitude is such a common vice, that even those who exclame most against it, are not freest of it
2. Epigrams. The Second Booke. № 34. The misery of such, as are doubtfull, and suspi∣cious of their VVives chastitie
3. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 21. To one, who did confide too much in the sound temperament, and goodly constitution of his bodily complexion
4. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 40. Of wisedome, in speech, in action in reality, and reputation
5. Epigrams. The Third Booke. № 29. How magnanimous a thing it is, in adversity, patiently to endure, what cannot bee evited

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