Think about the things of this world. If any of them truly belonged to us as human beings, then it would be wrong to reject them or oppose them. A person who can live without them wouldn't deserve praise. And if these things were truly good, then someone who gives them up willingly wouldn't be good either. But we see the opposite is true. The more someone pulls away from external status and wealth — or similar things — the better we think of them. And the better they handle losing these things, the more we respect them.
Again, concerning these outward worldly things, were it so that any of them did properly belong unto man, then would it not belong unto man, to condemn them and to stand in opposition with them. Neither would he be praiseworthy that can live without them; or he good, (if these were good indeed) who of his own accord doth deprive himself of any of them. But we see contrariwise, that the more a man doth withdraw himself from these wherein external pomp and greatness doth consist, or any other like these; or the better he doth bear with the loss of these, the better he is accounted.