4 quotes
The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
Henry David ThoreauThe cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.
Henry David ThoreauMen cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
John RuskinAll the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.
Plato