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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.
Theophrastus
Born: 371 BC
Died: 287 BC (aged 84)
Bio: Theophrastus, a Greek native of Eresos in Lesbos, was the successor to Aristotle in the Peripatetic school. He came to Athens at a young age and initially studied in Plato's school. After Plato's death, he attached himself to Aristotle.
Known for:
- Historia Plantarum
- The characters of Theophrastus
- Theophrastus on stones
- Characters
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