A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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Nationality: Greek Type: Philosopher Born: 341 BC Death: 271 BC |
“For a long time many believed that there would be an automatic adjustment and counted on a rapid increase in the wages of the emerging nations, on our advances in technology and the costs of transport preventing disruption. But this reassuring analysis is out of date.”
“The intercourse between the Mediterranean and the North or between the Atlantic and Central Europe was never purely economic or political; it also meant the exchange of knowledge and ideas and the influence of social institutions and artistic and literary forms.”