Pleasure Of Poverty

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It was said to Socrates by a certain man, "I am deeply pained for thee because thou art so poor." And he replied, "If though could only attain unto the pleasure of poverty, whereof though art [now] deprived thou wouldst be sorry for thyself and not for me."

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