postero die interrogantibus cuinam adnumerari pecuniam vellet, quid? vos inquit hesterna cena non intellexistis ea me non indigere? ita rex philosophi amicitiam emere voluit, philosophus regi suam vendere noluit.
When they asked him the next day to whom he would like the money counted out, he replied, Why, did you not understand from yesterdays dinner that I have no need of it? So the king wanted to buy the philosophers friendship, but the philosopher did not want to sell it to the king.
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