Cum ergo et parentium cura et praeceptorum doctrinis auctas haberem copias disciplinarum, philologis et philotechinis rebus commentariorumque scribturis me delectans eas possessiones animo paravi, e quibus haec est fructuum summa: nullas plus habendi esse necessitates eamque esse proprietatem, divitiarum maxime, nihil desiderare.
When therefore both the care of my parents and the instruction of my teachers had increased my stock of knowledge, I found delight in literary and technical matters and in the works written upon them, thus acquiring mental possessions of which this is the total profit: that there is no necessity of getting more and more, and that property consists in requiring nothing, least of all, riches.
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