What profit is there from our many goods,
If care, with evil thoughts,
Is still the nurse of fair prosperity?

ἀλλὰ τῶν πολλῶν καλῶν
τίς χάρις, εἰ κακόβουλος
φροντὶς ἐκτρίψει τὸν εὐαίωνα πλοῦτον

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