Quote: Plato on Wealth and Poverty

By Alex in Quote-a-Day on Oct 9, 2007 at 12:09 pm

"Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."

– Plato, Greek philosopher (427 BC – 347 BC)


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  1. nerfherder
    Oct 9th, 2007 at 3:30 pm

    Eh. I've seen some pretty mean and vicious rich people and some pretty indolent poor people. I guess the big guys can't always get it right.

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