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A treatyce of Moral philosophy containing the sayinges of the wise

Wherein you maye see the worthye and pithye sayinges of ye Philosophers, Emperors, kinges, and oratours, of their liues, their aunswers, of what lignage they came of, and of what cou[n]trey they were, whose worthy and notable preseptes, counsailes parables and semblables doth hereafter folow: First gathered and englished by Willia[m] Baldwin, after that, twise augmented by Thomas Paulfreyman ... & now once againe enlarged by the first aucthor
  
  

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The summe of all

[Sith the perfect riches is suffisaunce]

Sith the perfect riches is suffisaunce
he is more riche, content with pouertia

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then he that hath of treasures aboundaunce,
which no man may possesse well with suretye
Richest is be that can himselfe satisfie
with fewest thinges, whiche he both safe and sure,
where fortunes giftes, be doubtfull to endure.