Relative Poverty

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    “Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.”
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    “Wealth makes the laws that poverty must obey.”
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