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Letter "W" » Wealth
"Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go."
Author: Thomas Carlyle
About: Wealth
"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to
administer in his lifetime for the good of the community."
Author: Andrew Carnegie
About: Wealth
"The foolish sayings of the rich pass for wise saws in society.
[Sp., Las necedades del rico por sentencias pasan en el mundo.]"
Author: Cervantes (Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra)
About: Wealth
"Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most
certain wealth of all.
[Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal
est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque
divitiae.]"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Wealth
"I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help
humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker.
The example of great and pure individuals is the only thing that
can lead us to noble thoughts and deeds. Money only appeals to
selfishness and irresistibly invites abuse. Can anyone imagine M
anyone imagine Moses, Jesus or Gandhi armed with the money-bags
of Carnegie?"
Author: Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
About: Wealth
"Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
About: Wealth
"Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large
enough to cover."
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
About: Wealth
"If your Riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to
t'other world?"
Author: Benjamin Franklin
About: Wealth
"Who hath not heard the rich complain
Of surfeits, and corporeal pain?
He barr'd from every use of wealth,
Envies the ploughman's strength and health."
Author: John Gay
About: Wealth
"The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal
amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his
contribution to the general stock."
Author: Henry George
About: Wealth
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