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 one on the beggars' stand (52–60). Do you object to my spending on myself some part of what is my own? You will have the rest; take what I leave you and be thankful; don't force me to live scurvily for your benefit, and don't serve up to me wise sayings about living on one's income and keeping one's capital intact. Am I to be starved in order that some scape-grace heir of yours may grow a belly? Sell your life for gain; ransack the world in your quest for wealth; let it come back to you with a two-fold, a three-fold, ay a ten-fold increase; if you can tell me where to stop, Chrysippus, your fallacy of the Sorites will have been solved (61–80)! 391