Kitap 1
5.7
Wealth consists in abundance of money, ownership of land and properties, and further of movables, cattle, and slaves, remarkable for number, size, and beauty, if they are all secure, liberal, and useful. Property that is productive is more useful, but that which has enjoyment for its object is more liberal. By productive I mean that which is a source of income, by enjoyable that which offers no advantage beyond the use of it—at least, none worth mentioning. Security may be defined as possession of property in such places and on such conditions that the use of it is in our own hands; and ownership as the right of alienation or notἢ μή: in the MS. readings these words follow τοῦ οἰκεῖα εἶναι: ownership or non-ownership. The alteration is Spengel's., by which I mean giving the property away or selling it. In a word, being wealthy consists rather in use than in possession; for the actualizationἐνέργεια: realization in action or fact. and use of such things is wealth.
5.8
A good reputation consists in being considered a man of worth by all, or in possessing something of such a nature that all or most men, or the good, or the men of practical wisdom desire it.
