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Often appears with: providence and divine governance · poverty and wealth · poverty and virtue · justice as a virtue · cato the elder · aristides
Usually: reflection (1) · injustice endured (1) · censure (1) · exhortation (1)
“What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence;” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · insight
“Riches ought to be proportioned to the use we have of them; for he that scrapes together a great deal, making use of but little, is not independent;” Plutarch, Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans · precept
Plutarch argues that a just man should not be judged by lack of wealth, contrasting Aristides’s poverty and failure to provide for his daughters with Cato’s long line of Roman glory.
was not dear, nor household cares to me, Whose increase rears the thriving family; But well-rigged ships were always my delight, And wars, and darts, and arrows of the fight: as if the same characters carelessly neglected their own estates, and lived by injustice and rapine from others. For it is not as the physicians say of oil, that outwardly applied, it is very wholesome, but taken inwardly detrimental, that thu…