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Only the possession of an enormous amount of money gives a decisive direction to the life of its owner which the wealthy person can hardly escape from. (G. Simmel, (1900). Philosophy of Money, p.311) |
So Midas, king of Lydia, swelled at first with pride when he found he could transform everything he touched to gold; but when he beheld his food grow rigid and his drink harden into golden ice then he understood that this gift was a bane and in his loathing for gold, cursed his prayer" (Claudian, In Rufinem).
In a version told by Nathaniel Hawthorne in A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys (1852), Midas found that when he touched his daughter, she turned to gold as well.
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Only the possession of an enormous amount of money gives a decisive direction to the life of its owner which the wealthy person can hardly escape from. (G. Simmel, (1900). Philosophy of Money, p.311) |