Instead of loving contention and glory, men become lovers of trade and money. They honor and look up to the rich man, and make a ruler of him, and dishonor the poor man. Plato. The Republic. Book 8.
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| A satyr riding an elephant on a Roman sarcophagus depicting the triumphal procession of Dionysus through India with his attendants riding elephants and lions 190 CE. Photographed at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland. |
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