Thursday, February 16, 2012

More Cicero

Shun also the desire for money. Nothing is more the mark of a mean and petty spirit than to love riches; nothing more honorable and more magnificent than to despise money if you are without it, but if you have it to devote it to liberality and beneficence.
-Cicero. On Duties. (I. 68)

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