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"Yes, that is certainly true: if a man dislikes all
vices, and begins to tread a straight path in life, he is hated first of all because
his character is superior; for who is able to like what differs from himself?
Further, those who only trouble about heaping up riches,[p. 169] do not want
anything to be considered better than what is in their own hands. So they persecute
men with a passion for learning in every possible way, to make them also look an
inferior article to money. . . .
"Somehow or other poverty is own sister to good sense . . .
“I wish he that hates me for my virtue were so guiltless that he might be
mollified. As it is he is a past master of robbery, and more clever than any
pimp.”
Petronius Arbiter. Petronius. Michael Heseltine. London. William Heinemann. 1913.
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