wealth will make you happy, because it will enable you to benefit many
 Plutarch, Moralia (c. 100 AD). copy citation

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Author Plutarch
Source Moralia
Topic wealth benefit
Date c. 100 AD
Language English
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Note Translated by Arthur Richard Shilleto
Weblink http://www.gutenberg.org/files/23639/23639-h/23639-h.htm

Context

“You will live daintily and be a king in poverty, and enjoy a quiet and private life as much as the public life of general or statesman. By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places 98and things: wealth will make you happy, because it will enable you to benefit many; and poverty, as you will not then have many anxieties; and glory, for it will make you honoured; and obscurity, for you will then be safe from envy. 213 Happiness comes from within, not from without.” source