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  1. Pilkington—Puritan, expounding Proverbs—prays the wealthy would open their barns rather than corner markets during hunger. Solomon’s verdict: hoarders get cursed, sellers get blessed. Note the nuance: private property stays intact. It’s simply that hoarding during famine attracts God’s plague and popular fury. Today we’d sooner blame the hungry for coveting. Proverbs disagrees.

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  2. A quotation from Marcus Aurelius

    How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure.
     
    [Ὅσην εὐσχολίαν κερδαίνει ὁ μὴ βλέπων τί ὁ πλησίον εἶπεν ἢ ἔπραξεν ἢ διενοήθη, ἀλλὰ μόνον τί αὐτὸς ποιεῖ, ἵνα αὐτὸ τοῦτο δίκαιον ᾖ καὶ ὅσιον ἢ † κατὰ τὸν ἀγαθὸν.]

    Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
    Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 4, ch. 18 (4.18) (AD 161-180) [tr. Long (1862)]

    Sourcing, notes, other translations: wist.info/marcus-aureleus/3216…

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