Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Publilius Syrus

Sententiae · 43 BC

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43 BC Classical antiquity

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Publilius Syrus. Sententiae. c. 1st century BC.

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