7.]--This also was the meaning of the philosopher Antisthenes, when he pleasantly said, that "men should furnish themselves with such things as would float, and might with the owner escape the storm";--[Diogenes Laertius, vi.

6.] and certainly a wise man never loses anything if he have himself.

When the city of Nola was ruined by the barbarians, Paulinus, who was bishop of that place, having there lost all he had, himself a prisoner, prayed after this manner: "O Lord, defend me from being sensible of this loss; for Thou knowest they have yet touched nothing of that which is mine."-- [St.
Augustin, De Civit.

Dei, i.

10.]--The riches that made him rich and the goods that made him good, were still kept entire.