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Chapter — Part IV
Latin
Sed hoc vitium eorum tantum est qui non ex indigentia nec propter necessitates nummos quærunt sed quia lucri artes didicerunt quibus se magnifice efferunt. Cæterum corpus ex consuetudine pascunt sed parce quia tantum de suis bonis se perdere credunt quantum sui corporis conservationi impendunt. At qui verum nummorum usum norunt et divitiarum modum ex sola indigentia moderantur, paucis contenti vivunt.
English (Elwes 1883)
This result is the fault only of those, who seek money, not from poverty or to supply their necessary wants, but because they have learned the arts of gain, wherewith they bring themselves to great splendour. Certainly they nourish their bodies, according to custom, but scantily, believing that they lose as much of their wealth as they spend on the preservation of their body. But they who know the true use of money, and who fix the measure of wealth solely with regard to their actual needs, live content with little.
Modern English
This fault belongs only to those who seek money not out of poverty or necessity but because they have learned the arts of gain, by which they make a great show of themselves. They feed their bodies as custom requires, but sparingly — because they believe they lose as much of their wealth as they spend on preserving the body. Those who know the true use of money and who regulate the measure of their wealth by actual need alone live content with little.