Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Objects

    Gold and silver

    object · 5 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    gold · silver · gold and silver · metals

    in the texts

    HipparchusClassical · Greek

    The two metals used in a worked example about exchange, weighed against each other to test whether a larger amount of a less valuable metal counts as gain compared with a smaller amount of a more valuable one.

    Not in worth, the one being silver and the other gold.
    hipparchus
    Loss, I presume, Socrates for one’s gold is reduced to twice, instead of twelve times, the value of silver.
    hipparchus
    Tell me, if one spends half a pound of gold and gets double that weight in silver, has one got gain or loss?
    hipparchus

    LysisClassical · Greek

    Commonly prized commodities cited as another example of things valued only for the sake of some further end.

    I know that we often talk of setting great value on gold and silver:
    lysis

    Letters to LuciliusImperial · Latin

    Precious metals that nature concealed underground, later dug out by humans and made the object of greed and conflict.

    Nature attaches us to no vice;
    letter 94
    why not, since they are dragged out through the darkness of the longest shafts?
    letter 94
    gold and silver, and the iron that on account of these never keeps peace, she hid away, as though they were ill committed to us.
    letter 94

    De Cultu FeminarumLate Antiquity · Latin

    Precious metals central to the critique of worldly female adornment

    Although gold itself too, whose glory occupies you, serves a certain nation for fetters, the heathen literature reports.
    de cultu feminarum
    Among certain barbarians, because gold is homegrown and copious, they keep men bound with gold in the workhouses, and load the wicked with riches, the more wealthy the more guilty.
    de cultu feminarum
    But if the glory of gold and silver is from the quality of their use, then surely more so that of iron and bronze, whose usefulness is so disposed that they both exhibit more proper services, and more necessary ones, to human affairs, and nonetheless lend out of their own the office of gold and silver for juster causes.
    de cultu feminarum

    MemorabiliaClassical · Greek

    Precious metals used to contrast material wealth with intellectual virtue.

    By Hera, retorted Socrates, I do admire you for valuing the treasures of wisdom above gold and silver.
    chapter 4