Plutarch: Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in tho

Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to li — Plutarch

Said Scopas of Thessaly, "But we rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."

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