For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Chrysostom, Dio The Seventh, or, Euboean, Discourse 1932 p.343 Book Dio Chrysostom, Ancient Greece Ancient Greece, History, Labor, Profit, Hesiod, Class
Citation with Excerpt Chrysostom, Dio 1932 Book Ancient Greece History Labor Profit Hesiod Class Dio Chrysostom Ancient Greece

The Seventh, or, Euboean, Discourse

by Chrysostom, Dio (1932)

Key Passage

I desired to show in some way or other that poverty is no hopeless impediment to a life and existence befitting free men who are willing to work with their hands, but leads them on to deeds and actions that are far better and more useful and more in accordance with nature than those to which riches are wont to attract most men. (p.343)

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Ancient Greece, History, Labor, Profit, Hesiod, Class

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Dio Chrysostom, Ancient Greece

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Cohoon JW

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