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• It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.

  Juvenal

  Order, Want, Madness

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• When a fortune comes without calling, it's apt to leave without asking.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Asking, Calling, Fortune

  George Horace Lorimer (2006). “Old Gorgon Graham: More Letters from a Self-made Merchant to His Son”, p.7, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Wealth is power, and power is the only thing about which contemporary culture cares.

  Dean Koontz

  Power, Care, Culture

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.607, Bantam

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• There is no get-rich-quick scheme equal to a poor girl marrying a rich man.

  E. W. Howe

  Girl, Men, Rich

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• That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Riches, Rich, Lost

  Leonardo Da Vinci (2015). “Thoughts on Art and Life: "Behind the Genius"”, p.83, eKitap Projesi

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• It is far more easy to acquire a fortune like a knave, than to expend it, like a gentleman.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Gentleman, Knaves, Easy

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.213

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• Being wealthy when no one else is, is like being the only one at the party with a drink.

  Tim Allen

  Party, Drink, Wealthy

  “Tim Allen: What I've Learned” by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. October 11, 2011.

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• For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility.

  Richard Branson

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

  Richard de Bury

  Wealth And Happiness, Library, Zealous

  Richard de Bury (1889). “Philobiblon”

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• The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth.

  Plato

  Law, Evil, Would Be

  Plato (1872). “Laws. Appendix: Lesser Hippias. First Alcibiades. Menexenus. Index of persons and places”, p.269

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• I learned that the interior of life was as rewarding as the exterior of life, and that my richest moments occurred when I was absolutely still.

  Richard Bode

  Inner Peace, Moments, Finding Peace

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• Man was born to be rich, or to inevitably grow rich, by the use of his faculties: by the union of thought with nature.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Use, Unions

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.368

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• Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Firsts, Poor, Duty

  "Major Barbara".

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• There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.

  Plato

  Evil, Citizens, Poverty

  Plato (2008). “Laws”, p.112, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  Seneca the Younger

  Acquisition, Riches, Faults

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• The American fast food diet and the meat eating habits of the wealthy around the world support a world food system that diverts food resources from the hungry. A diet higher in whole grains and legumes and lower in beef and other meat is not just healthier for ourselves but also contributes to changing the world system that feeds some people and leaves others hungry.

  Walden Bello

  Vegetarianism, Meat Eating, People

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• But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.

  Donald Grant Mitchell

  Mean, Anxiety, Refinement

  Donald Grant Mitchell (1851). “Reveries of a Bachelor: Or A Book of the Heart”, p.135

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• The rich man's sons inherits cares; The bank may break, the factory burn, A breath may burst his bubble shares, And soft, white hands could hardly earn A living that would serve his turn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Son, Men, White

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.17

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• All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

  William Shakespeare

  Dirty, Gold, Worship

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• Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

  Ovid

  Evil, Earth, Incentives

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• What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Clothes, Giving

  Alexander Pope (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author [&c.] by W. Roscoe”, p.238

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• Our inequality materializes our upper class, vulgarizes our middle class, brutalizes our lower class.

  Matthew Arnold

  Class, Middle, Consumerism

  Matthew Arnold (2013). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold (Illustrated)”, p.816, Delphi Classics

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• Our wealth is often a snare to ourselves, and always a temptation to others.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Temptation, Snares

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.187

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• Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

  George Herbert

  Thinking, Devil

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.9

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• Great wealth may be to its owner a blessing or a curse. Alas! I fear it is too often the latter. It hardens the heart, blunts the finer susceptibilities, and transforms into a fiend what under more favourable circumstances might have been a human being.

  Arnold Bennett

  Heart, Blessing, May

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