On Wealth and Austerity

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Versailles

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Benjamin Franklin, 1755

Painting by Pierre Patel: Versailles, France (1668)

Related: On the Moral Superiority of the Rich

On the Moral Superiority of the Poor

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