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SOME FRAGMENTS. EALTH is not a good thing; extravagance is a bad thing; soberness is a good thing. And soberness inclines us to frugality and the acquisition of things that are good; but wealth inclines us to extravagance and draws us away from soberness. It is hard then for a sober man to be rich, or for a rich man to be sober.

F you had been born in Persia, you would not have been anxious to live in Greece, but rather to live a happy life where you were; why then, if you have been born in poverty, are you anxious to become rich instead of remaining in poverty and being happy there?

EVEN