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Quotation from A Discourse on Political Economy by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“money is the seed of money”
A Discourse on Political Economy, Third rule (taxation), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913)
Explaining why losses fall harder on the poor: the first small sum is harder to gain than a later fortune.
Citation: "money is the seed of money" — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on Political Economy, Third rule (taxation), trans. G. D. H. Cole (1913). (id rousseau-discourse-on-political-economy-q8)
