In the same manner if any nation wasted part of its wealth, or lost part of its trade, it could not retain the same quantity of circulating medium which it before possessed.

  • -- David Ricardo 大卫·里卡多

同样,如果一个国家浪费了它的一部分财富,或失去了它的一部分贸易,它就不能保持它以前拥有的同样数量的流通媒介。

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He is a great simpleton who imagines that the chief power of wealth is to supply wants. In ninety-nine cases out of a hundred it creates more wants than it supplies.

他是个大傻瓜,以为财富的主要力量是满足欲望。在百分之九十九的情况下,它创造的需求多于供给。

Wealth should not be seized, but the god-given is much better.

财富不应被攫取,但上帝赐予的财富更好。