Wealth and poverty

and yet, although he had so great an advantage toward laying up more wealth than any other man, he left at his death only a thousand staters.

Now, on the other hand, a man has to be ready to defend himself against being rich as if it were the worst of crimes, and to keep on the alert if he is to avoid disaster;

Now, generally speaking, you will find that no one of the so-called sophists has accumulated a great amount of money, but that some of them have lived in poor, others in moderate circumstances.

In wealth, he replied.

And how about you, Charmides?

What pride, said he, on the contrary, is in my poverty.