{"id":610573,"date":"2024-03-29T19:13:19","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T23:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/29\/against-borrowing-money\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T19:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T23:22:53","slug":"against-borrowing-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/29\/against-borrowing-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Against Borrowing Money"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I cannot carry a goat, put an ox on my shoulders.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do not borrow, for you will never able to pay it back\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Persians: debt is the first crime. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing can come out of nothing; natural philosophers<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153there is interest before interest and other interest too\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bonds and agreements are like fetters:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153they bring into Greece boxes full of bonds and agreements, like fetters\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Wish to live free \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The joy of ease:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153the asylum and sanctuary of frugality is everywhere open to the sober-minded, affording them joyful and honourable and ample space for much ease.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Build a temple of liberty for ourselves, our wives, our children <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153build a temple of liberty for ourselves, our wives, and children.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Borrow from your own table <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Why 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.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Plato in his Laws881 does not permit neighbours to use one another&#8217;s water, unless they have first dug for themselves as far as the clay, and reached ground that is unsuitable for a well\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never borrow money &#8211;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Ought there not also to be a law about money, that people should not borrow of others, nor go to other people&#8217;s sources of income, until they have first examined their own resources at home, and collected, as by drops\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Excerpt From<br \/>Plutarch&#8217;s Morals<br \/>Plutarch<br \/>https:\/\/books.apple.com\/us\/book\/plutarchs-morals\/id511195428<br \/>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153I cannot carry a goat, put an ox on my shoulders.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Do not borrow, for you will never able to pay it back\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Persians: debt is the first crime. 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