“Nature gives beauty; fortune, wealth in vain.”
Edward Fairfax (1580–1635) English translator
Book XVI, stanza 65
Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered (1600)
“The wealth required by nature is limited and is easy to procure; but the wealth required by vain ideals extends to infinity.”
— Epicurus
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