Now let's talk about money and property — the biggest source of human misery. Compare all our other troubles — death, illness, fear, regret, physical pain and hard work — with the suffering that money causes us. Money troubles will outweigh all the rest. Think about this: it hurts much less to never have had money than to lose money you once had. This shows us that the less poor people have to lose, the less they suffer. You're wrong if you think rich people handle losses better than poor people do.
Let us now pass on to the consideration of property, that most fertile source of human sorrows: for if you compare all the other ills from which we suffer—deaths, sicknesses, fears, regrets, endurance of pains and labours— with those miseries which our money inflicts upon us, the latter will far outweigh all the others. Reflect, then, how much less a grief it is never to have had any money than to have lost it: we shall thus understand that the less poverty has to lose, the less torment it has with which to afflict us: for you are mistaken if you suppose that the rich bear their losses with greater spirit than the poor: