Thomas Urquhart (Томас Эркарт)

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.

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.

© Перевод Евг. Фельдмана
7.06.2007
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