55. What, then, shall I say of his economy,
a kind of continence regarding possessions? For he who takes care
of his own does not seek other men’s goods, nor is he puffed up
by abundance who is contented with his own. For he did not wish
to recover anything except his own, and that rather that he might not
be cheated than that he might be richer. For he rightly called
those who seek other men’s goods hawks of money. But if
avarice be the root of all evils, 1 Tim. vi. 10. he who does
not seek for money has certainly stripped himself of vices.