From: cybersean3000 at domain yahoo.com
Date: Fri 19 Oct 2001 - 14:43:25 IST
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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