Gold and silver
object · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages
gold · silver · gold and silver · metals · الفضة والذهب
spoken of as
1 expressionsilver and gold1 mention
Adab al-wazīr (Arabic)
silver and gold make the foot firm, but better than both is sound counsel.
in the texts
Adab al-wazīr
Precious metals named as the standard of value that counsel surpasses.
silver and gold make the foot firm, but better than both is sound counsel.
Letters to Lucilius
Precious metals that nature concealed underground, later dug out by humans and made the object of greed and conflict.
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.
why not, since they are dragged out through the darkness of the longest shafts?
Nature attaches us to no vice;
De Cultu Feminarum
Precious metals central to the critique of worldly female adornment
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.
Although gold itself too, whose glory occupies you, serves a certain nation for fetters, the heathen literature reports.
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.
Memorabilia
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.