Tuesday, January 01, 2019

 

Unsafe Possessions

Democritus, fragment B 77 Diels (Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker, 4. Aufl., Bd. II [1922], p. 77; tr. C.C.W. Taylor):
Reputation and wealth without intelligence are unsafe possessions.

δόξα καὶ πλοῦτος ἄνευ ξυνέσιος οὐκ ἀσφαλέα κτήματα.



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