“I cannot carry a goat, put an ox on my shoulders.”

“Do not borrow, for you will never able to pay it back”

Persians: debt is the first crime.

Nothing can come out of nothing; natural philosophers

“there is interest before interest and other interest too”

Bonds and agreements are like fetters:

“they bring into Greece boxes full of bonds and agreements, like fetters”

Wish to live free —

The joy of ease:

“the asylum and sanctuary of frugality is everywhere open to the sober-minded, affording them joyful and honourable and ample space for much ease.

Build a temple of liberty for ourselves, our wives, our children

“build a temple of liberty for ourselves, our wives, and children.”

Borrow from your own table

“Why pay court to the banker or trader? Borrow from your own table. You have cups, silver dishes, pots and pans. Use them in your need.”

“Plato in his Laws881 does not permit neighbours to use one another’s water, unless they have first dug for themselves as far as the clay, and reached ground that is unsuitable for a well”

Never borrow money –

“Ought there not also to be a law about money, that people should not borrow of others, nor go to other people’s sources of income, until they have first examined their own resources at home, and collected, as by drops”

Excerpt From
Plutarch’s Morals
Plutarch
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