“Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.”
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Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment.
There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers, and political power and philosophy thus come into the same hands.
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.