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Pataliputra, India
Be ever active in the management of the economy, because the root of wealth is economic activity; inactivity brings material distress.
Moral excellence is an ornament for personal beauty; righteous conduct, for high birth; success, for learning; and proper spending, for wealth.
Accumulated wealth is saved by spending, just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADDo not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.
Marcus Aurelius·180 ADNot to live as if you had endless years ahead of you. Death overshadows you. While you're alive and able—be good.
Seneca·65 ADNothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession.
