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Single Idea 242
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / c. Wealth
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Full Idea
The community in which neither wealth nor poverty exists will produce the finest characters.
Gist of Idea
The best people are produced where there is no excess of wealth or poverty
Source
Plato (The Laws [c.348 BCE], 679b)
Book Ref
Plato: 'The Laws', ed/tr. Saunders,Trevor J [Penguin 1970], p.122
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[possession of money as a possible virtue]:
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341
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Wealth is good if it is accompanied by virtue
[Socrates]
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13551
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Democritus says wealth is a burden to the virtuous mind
[Democritus, by Seneca]
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242
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The best people are produced where there is no excess of wealth or poverty
[Plato]
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256
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Virtue and great wealth are incompatible
[Plato]
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351
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War aims at the acquisition of wealth, because we are enslaved to the body
[Plato]
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108
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The virtue of generosity requires money
[Aristotle]
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22561
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The rich are seen as noble, because they don't need to commit crimes
[Aristotle]
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5859
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Rich people are mindlessly happy
[Aristotle]
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1539
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The endless desire for money is a crueller slavery than poverty
[Democritus (attr)]
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526
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Small appetite makes poverty equal to wealth
[Democritus (attr)]
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5894
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All men except philosophers fear poverty
[Cicero]
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6293
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It is almost impossible for the rich to go to heaven
[Jesus]
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13563
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Why does your wife wear in her ears the income of a wealthy house?
[Seneca]
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13564
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There is far more scope for virtue if you are wealthy; poverty only allows endurance
[Seneca]
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13565
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If wealth was a good, it would make men good
[Seneca]
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17228
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Rational people judge money by needs, and live contented with very little
[Spinoza]
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18287
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People now find both wealth and poverty too much of a burden
[Nietzsche]
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20692
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Money does produce happiness, but only up to a point
[Harari]
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