Plutarch Quotes

We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

Plutarch

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• We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.

  

  Plutarch
  • Happiness
  • Felicity
  • Rich Men