Money as fat, from a footnote 🐷

[quote]"‘Money is but the fat of the Body Politick, whereof too much doth as often hinder its agility, as too little makes it sick … as fat lubricates the motion of the muscles, feeds in want of victuals, fills up the uneven cavities, and beautifies the body; so doth money in the state quicken its action, feeds from abroad in time of dearth at home; evens accounts … and beautifies the whole; altho’ more especially the particular persons that have it in plenty’ (W. Petty, Political Anatomy of Ireland," (from "Capital: Volume I (Das Kapital series Book 1)" by Karl Marx, Ernest Mandel, Ben Fowkes)[/quote]