It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It is scarcity and plenty that make the vulgar take things to be precious or worthless; they call a diamond very beautiful because it is like pure water, and then would not exchange one for ten barrels of water." in the context of "Galileo Galilei, Galileo Galilei, University of California Press." to mean that wisdom is timeless.