All pains whose only danger is their pain we call free from danger; toothache and the gout, painful as they are, inasmuch as they are not fatal, who lists them as illnesses? But let us suppose that in death we principally consider the pain, Aas likewise poverty has nothing to be feared but this, that it delivers us into the hands of pain, by the thirst, hunger, cold, heat, and sleepless nights that it makes us endure.
