The marginal cost of doing something 'just this once' always seems to be negligible, but the full cost will typically be much higher. Yet unconsciously, we will naturally employ the marginal-cost doctrine in our personal lives.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
That which costs little is less valued.
We can afford almost any mistake once.
Agreeing to share prosperity, rather than let it divide us, is infinitely preferable to the alternative.
No man pays double or twice for the same thing, forasmuch as nothing can be spent but once.
When things cost so much, you appreciate it much more.
If you buy an expensive thing and you never use it, I don't think there's a point to it.
The 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.
The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
What we pay for with our lives never costs too much.
If time is money, it seems moral to save time, above all one's own, and such parsimony is excused by consideration for others. One is straight-forward.