The Buddha-Carita or The Life of Buddha by Ven. Aśvaghoṣa

Buddha-carita, or The Life of Buddha - 142
adhāya yaśca sphayedanadho baddhāya mukto vidhanāya vāḍhyaḥ |
unmattacittāya ca kalyacittaḥ sphā sa kuryādviṣayātmakāya || 11.53
53. ‘Only he who, though seeing, would envy the blind, though free the bound, though
wealthy the destitute, though sound in his reason the maniac, — only he, I say, would
envy one who is devoted to worldly objects.
bhikṣopabhogī vara nānukapyaḥ ktī jarāmtyubhaya titīrṣuḥ |
ihottama śātisukha ca yasya paratra duḥkhāni ca savtāni || 11.54
54. ‘He who lives on alms, my good friend, is not to be pitied, having gained his end
and being set on escaping the fear of old age and death; he has here the best happiness,
perfect calm, and hereafter all pains are for him abolished.
lakṣmyā mahatyāmapi vartamānastṣṇābhibhūtastvanukapitavyaḥ |
prāpnoti yaḥ śātisukha na ceha paratra duḥkha pratighyate ca || 11.55
55. ‘But he is to be pitied who is overpowered by thirst though set in the midst of great
wealth, — who attains not the happiness of calm here, while pain has to be
experienced hereafter.
eva tu vaktu bhavato ’nurūpa sattvasya vttasya kulasya caiva |
mamāpi voḍhu sadśa pratijñā sattvasya vttasya kulasya caiva || 11.56
56. ‘Thus to speak to me is well worthy of thy character, thy mode of life, and thy
family; and to carry out my resolve is also befitting my character, my mode of life,
and my family.
aha hi sasārarasena viddho viniḥstaḥ śātamavāptukāmaḥ |
neccheyamāptu tridive ’pi rājya nirāmaya ki vata mānuṣeṣu || 11.57
57. ‘I have been wounded by the enjoyment of the world, and I have come out longing
to obtain peace; I would not accept an empire free from all ill even in the third
heaven, how much less amongst men?
trivargasevā npa yattu ktsnataḥ paro manuṣyārtha iti tvamāttha mām |
anartha ityāttha mamārthadarśana kṣayī trivargo hi na cāpi tarpakaḥ || 11.58
58. ‘But as for what thou saidst to me, O king, that the universal pursuit of the three
objects is the supreme end of man, — and 1 thou saidst that what I regard as the
desirable is misery, — thy three objects are perishable and also unsatisfying.
1 I would read anartha ity āttha (for ity artha).