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Full Idea
The character of the rich man is that of the mindlessly happy one.
Gist of Idea
Rich people are mindlessly happy
Source
Aristotle (The Art of Rhetoric [c.350 BCE], 1391a12)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'The Art of Rhetoric', ed/tr. Lawson-Tancred,H.C. [Penguin 1991], p.178
A Reaction
Very nice. It is hard to deny that the rich tend to be happy (in some sense of the word), and recent sociological research has tended to demonstrate this, but the pursuit of wealth must inevitably take the focus away from key intellectual pursuits. Yeh?