(Fwd) Re: [ILUG] Re: Diogenes

Fri Oct 19 14:43:25 IST 2001

The quote is actually from the Bible: 1 Timothy 6:10 (New International 
Version is quoted below) -

    For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager 
    for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many 
    griefs.

On 19 Oct 2001, at 14:35, Ferren MacIntyre wrote:

> Asked Niall O Broin:
> 
> >> The love of money is the root of all evil.  Diogenes
> >
> >Was this originally from Diogenes ? I know that it's the root of the often
> >misquoted "Money is the root of all evil" but I always thought it came from
> >the Bible - Timothy, I think, but I'm no Bible scholar. Of course there was
> >a terrible amount of plagiarism in those days :-)
> 
> Diogenes the Cynic said it about 250 years before Paul quoted him to
> Timothy, so it has been part of human wisdom for a long time.  Few people
> seem to believe it, including the spiritual heirs of St Paul.
> 
> I think he really said, 'The love of money is the *mother* of all evil'.
> 
> As an academic from an academic family,  I haven't met too many people who
> had a lot of money, but they haven't impressed me, and I've known a lot of
> good competent people who don't much worry about money, but always seem to
> have just enough for the important stuff.  Me, I keep books to 1 or fewer
> significant figures, if I bother at all.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> --Ferren
> 
> 
> 
> The love of money is the root of all evil.  Diogenes
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