What, then?
Do those grandiloquent gentlemen state anything better than Epicurus in opposition to these two things which distress us the most?
And as to other things, do not Epicurus and the rest of the philosophers seem sufficiently prepared?
Who is there who does not dread poverty?
And yet no true philosopher ever can dread it.
XXXII.

But with how little is this man himself satisfied! No one has said more on frugality.

For when a man is far removed from those things which occasion a desire of money, from love, ambition, or other daily extravagance, why should he be fond of money, or concern himself at all about it?
Could the Scythian Anacharsis[69] disregard money, and shall not our philosophers be able to do so?
We are informed of an epistle of his in these words: "Anacharsis to Hanno, greeting.

My clothing is the same as that with which the Scythians cover themselves; the hardness of my feet supplies the want of shoes; the ground is my bed, hunger my sauce, my food milk, cheese, and flesh.

So you may come to me as to a man in want of nothing.