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As for property, it is a duty to make money, but1
only by honourable means; it is a duty also to save
it and increase it by care and thrift. These principles Xenophon, a pupil of Socrates, has set forth
most happily in his book entitled “Oeconomicus.”
When I was about your present age, I translated it
from the Greek into Latin.
But this whole subject of acquiring money, investing money (I wish I could include also spending
money),is more profitably discussed by certain worthy
gentlemen on “Change” than could be done by any
philosophers of any school. For all that, we must
take cognizance of them; for they come fitly under
the head of expediency, and that is the subject of
the present book.
1 Finance.
M. Tullius Cicero. De Officiis. With An English Translation. Walter Miller. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1913.
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