The type of character produced by wealth lies on the surface for all to see. Wealthy men are insolent and arrogant; their possession of wealth affects their understanding; they feel as if they had every good thing that exists; wealth becomes a standard of value for everything else, and therefore they imagine there is nothing they cannot buy. They are luxurious and ostentatious … ostentatious and vulgar.
In a word, the type of character produced by wealth is that of a fool.
— Aristotle (384-322 B.C.), Greek philosopher
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