Money
As money has presented us with an abstract of everything, its image is unexcelled in the public’s mind because they can hardly imagine any kind of joy other than that of money as its cause. Money is a vice only in those who seek it not out of poverty or necessity, but because they have learned the arts of gain, by which they keep up a grand appearance. Those who know the true use of money and regulate the measure of wealth according to their needs live contented with few things.
Saint Paul said the ‘love of money is the root of all evil’. In Sophocles Antigone, Creon declares “Nothing so evil as money ever grew to be current among men. This lays cities low, drives men from their homes, this trains and warps honest souls ‘til they set themselves to works of shame; this still teaches folk to practice villainies and to know every godless deed”.
unattributed
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