What the world values

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The things which...are esteemed as the greatest good of all…can be reduced to these three headings: to wit, Riches, Fame, and Pleasure. With those three the mind is so engrossed that it cannot scarcely think of any other good.

Baruch Spinoza

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What the world values

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Baruch Spinoza

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Latin

Time

1677 1670s 17th century

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Spinoza, Baruch. Tractatus de Intellectus Emendatione [Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect]. 1677, ch. 1, sect. 3.

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Spinoza, Baruch. "The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect." Ethics: with The Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters, edited by Seymour Feldman, translated by Samuel Shirley. Hackett Publishing Company, 1992, ch. 1, sect. 3.

It is not that pearls fetch a high price because men have dived for them; but on the contrary, men dive for them because they fetch a high price.

Richard Whately

Introductory Lectures on Political Economy

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What the world values

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Richard Whately

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Introductory Lectures on Political Economy

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Lecture

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English

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1831 1830s 19th century

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Whately, Richard. "Introductory Lectures on Political Economy." 1831, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK. Lecture.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Thomas Dekker

Old Fortunatus

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Fortunatus

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Thomas Dekker

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Old Fortunatus

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Play

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English

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1599 1590s 16th century

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Dekker, Thomas. The Pleasant Comedie of Old Fortunatus. 1599, Richmond Palace, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Dekker, Thomas. Old Fortunatus, edited by David McInnis. Manchester University Press, 2019, act 1, sc. 1.