Note 88 — Chapter X · THE LYRIC POETS.
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"To be in health is the best thing for mortal man; the next best to be of form and nature beautiful; the third, to enjoy wealth gotten without fraud; and the fourth, to be in youth's bloom among friends." The Greek suspicion of wealth, abundantly illustrated in the Gnomic elegies, might be further exemplified by this fragment ascribed to Timocreon:
Would, blind Wealth, that thou hadst been Ne'er on land or ocean seen, Nowhere on this upper earth! Hell's black stream that gave thee birth Is the proper haunt for thee, Cause of all man's misery!