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Moreover, what is never detrimental is more
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useful. Now fire, when it forms a stream, is most
destructive ; but the nature of water is never harmful.
Then again, of two elements that is more beneficial
which is cheaper and provides its help without any
preparation. Now the use of fire requires a supply
of fuel, for which reason rich people have more of
it than poor, and kings than private persons ; but
water has another merit in service to man, that of
equality, with no discrimination. For it needs no
tools or implements, being a self-sufficient, self-fulfilling good.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Harold Cherniss and William C. Helmbold. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1957. 12.
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