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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal. |
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The glory that goes with wealth is fleeting and fragile; virtue is a possession glorious and eternal.- Sallust
Wealth, beauty, and fame are transient. When those are gone, little is left except the need to be useful.
I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky thing to try to own something that remains in your possession even after you give it to many others.
One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
