Complete. “Attic Nights,” Book IX., Chap. viii.

IT is certainly true what wise men, from their observation of the use of things, have said, that he who has much must want much, and that great indigence arises not from great want, but great abundance. For many things are wanted to preserve the many things which you have. Whoever, therefore, having much, wishes to take care, and see beforehand that he may not want or be defective in anything, has need of loss and not of gain, and must have less that he may want less. I remember this sentiment uttered by Favorinus, amidst the loudest applauses, and conveyed in these very few words:—