On March 15th 2025 I started my day with these thoughts from the great philosophers,
"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time" --Aristotle,
"Those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production" --Plato,
"Indeed just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their sons, those who make money are serious about money in the same way; seeing it as a production of their own, and also, like everyone else, because of its usefulness. So they are difficult people to be with, since they are not prepared to speak positively of anything, except wealth." -- [Republic,from Book I]
“The life of money-making is one undertaken by compulsion... wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.” -- Aristotle,
“To fear death... is only to think ourselves wise without being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know.” -- Socrates.
And then yesterday I was contemplating;
"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants," -Epictetus
In Time.
7 years ago I shared;
"...you have been down there, Neo. You know that road. You know exactly where it ends. And I know that's not where you want to be...."
""No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man.""
"The way up and the way down are one and the same."
"Character is destiny." -- Heraclitus (c. 535 - c. 475 BCE)
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