Prefer honest poverty to unjust wealth

Prefer honest poverty to unjust wealth, for justice is better than riches in that riches profit us only while we live, while justice provides us glory even after we are dead, and while riches are shared by bad men, justice is a thing in which the wicked can have no part.  Isocrates.  To Demonicus.  Book 1.  Section 38.

Coin Bank shaped as a Beggar Girl Roman 25-50 CE Bronze and Copper
photographed at the Getty Villa in Malibu, California.

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