Enchiridion · Chapter 39

The Body Needs Only as Much as Nature Requires

1 verses · The body's needs are the measure of property: like the foot's relation to a shoe. Go beyond and there is no end — first gilded shoes, then purple, then embroidered. Limits know no return.

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  The measure of possessions for each person's body is whatever nature requires; stop there…