Porismata: not favor of princes, wife and children, or goods of body and mind taken together
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(8) Nor is it the favor of kings, princes, and others — more by flattery than by desert.
(10) Nor is it in wife and children — they are outside us; they are lost; they often turn to evil; they do not eternalize.
(11) Just as the highest good is contained neither in goods of the body nor in external goods, so neither in goods of the mind alone.(12) Nor in these goods of body and mind taken together.
Latin
8. Neque est favor regum, principum, aliorum — affentatione plus quam merito. 10. Neque est in uxore & liberis — sunt extra nos; amittuntur; vertuntur saepe in malum; non aeternant. 11. Sicut summum bonum neque corporis neque externis bonis continetur, ita neque animi bonis solis. 12. Neque in his bonis corporis & animi simul sumtis.