....or what might be called the upper station of low life, which he had found by long experience was the best state in the world, the most suited to human happiness, not exposed to the miseries and hardships, the labor and sufferings of the ambition, and envy of the upper part of mankind and not embarrassed with the pride, luxury, judge of the happiness of this state by this one thing.
that this was the state of life which all other people envied; that kings have frequently lamented the miserable consequences of being born to great things, and wished they had been placed in the middle of the two testimony to this as the just standard of true felicity, when he prayed to have neither poverty or riches. 引自第2页