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"Wealth does not consist in money, but in the abundance of all things necessary and agreeable to life; and it is only to obtain these that money is sought."

— Le Pesant de Boisguilbert, Pierre event 1695

From Le Détail de la France

Context: On the nature of wealth and the error of mercantilist gold-hoarding

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