Who then is sound? He, who is not a fool. What is the covetous man? Both a fool and a madman. What-- if a man be not covetous, is he immediately[ to be deemed] sound? By no means. Why so, Stoic? I will tell you. Such a patient( suppose Craterus[ the physician] said this) is not sick at the heart. Is he therefore well, and shall he get up? No, he will forbid that; because his side or his reins are harassed with an acute disease. [In like manner], such a man is not perjured, nor sordid; let him then sacrifice a hog to his propitious household gods. But he is ambitious and assuming. Let him make a voyage[ then] to Anticyra. For what is the difference, whether you fling whatever you have into a gulf, or make no use of your acquisitions?