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All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation.
Plutarch
Born: 46
Died: 127 (aged 81)
Bio: Plutarch was a Greek historian, biographer and essayist, known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He is classified as a Middle Platonist. Plutarch's surviving works are believed to have been originally written in Koine Greek.
Known for:
- Parallel Lives
- The Fall of the Roman Republic
- On Sparta
- The age of Alexander
- Makers of Rome, nine lives
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