Above all, money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue. (Mortimer Adler)

Above all, money-making and other external indices of social success must become subordinate to the inner attainments of moral and intellectual virtue.

Mortimer Adler

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