“Wealth I desire to have; but wrongfully to get it, I do not wish.
Justice, even if slow, is sure.”

—  Solón

Plutarch Solon, ch. 2; translation by Bernadotte Perrin. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?lookup=Plut.+Sol.+2.1

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