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• Most people wish for riches, but few people provide the definite plan and burning desire which pave the road to wealth.

  Napoleon Hill

  People, Wish, Desire

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• Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Desert, Rewards, Virtue

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

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• As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain; if thou hast lost thy wealth, thou hast lost some trouble with it; if thou art degraded from thy honor, thou art likewise freed from the stroke of envy; if sickness hath blurred thy beauty, it hath delivered thee from pride. Set the allowance against the loss, and thou shalt find no loss great; he loses little or nothing, that reserves himself.

  Francis Quarles

  Art, Pride, Loss

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.42

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• The man who worships mere wealth is a snob.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Worship, He Man

  Anthony Trollope (2008). “Thackeray: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.127, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, "My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour.

  Plutarch

  Sea, Enough, Estates

  Plutarch (1909). “Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, comprising all the works collected under the title of "Morals", translated from the Greek by several hands, corr. and rev. by William W. Goodwin”

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• Inhibition is no good provider for a needy man, Inhibition, which does men great harm and great good. Inhibition attaches to poverty, boldness to wealth.

  Hesiod

  Men, Doe, Poverty

  Opera et dies, 317-9 (translated by M L West, 1988).

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• Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.

  Diogenes

  Cities, House, Virtue

  "Anthology (Book 4)". Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.

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• Wealth--the most excellent of all gods.

  Aristophanes

  Excellent

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• There are occasions when the simplest and fewest words surpass in effect all the wealth of rhetorical amplification.

  George Henry Lewes

  Amplification, Rhetorical, Simplest

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• As the cream abandons the milk from which it took its life, and rises to the top and rides there, so men, because they are richer than those around about them, separate themselves, and all mankind below them they regard as skim milk.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Men, Riches, Milk

  Henry Ward Beecher (1873). “The Sermons of Henry Ward Beecher in Plymouth Church, Brooklyn”, p.381

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• A man can hardly be said to have made a fortune if he does not know how to enjoy it.

  Luc de Clapiers

  Men, Doe, Made

  Jean de La Bruyère, Luc de Clapiers marquis de Vauvenargues (1903). “La Bruyère and Vauvenargues: Selections from the Characters, Reflexions and Maxims”

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• There is no greater wealth than Virtue,And no greater loss than to forget it.

  Thiruvalluvar

  Loss, Forget, Virtue

  "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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• To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.

  John Calvin

  Mean, Humility, Passion

  John Calvin (2004). “Golden Booklet of the True Christian Life”, p.41, Baker Books

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• Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth .

  Epicurus

  Self, Self Sufficiency, Sufficiency

  Epicurus (1993). “The essential Epicurus: letters, principal doctrines, Vatican sayings, and fragments”

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• A man's wealth must be determined by the relation of his desires and expenditures to his income. If he feels rich on ten dollars, and has everything else he desires, he really is rich.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Men, Desire, Dollars

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.16, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I try to look at the evolution of these utopian claims. In the late '60s there was an assumption that the wealth generated by industry would be taxed and then put into social programs and it would provide a baseline of stability that would allow people to have the time for self-expression; and that social contract has eroded over the last four decades and now it's every person for themselves.

  Astra Taylor

  Expression, Self, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

  J. C. Ryle

  Pride, Watches, Shapes

  "Bible commentary - The gospel of Matthew".

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• The heart of our relationship, this natural environment that has blessed us really all along the west coast of North America, on both sides of the border we've realized that this incredible natural wealth comes with a price.

  Dan Miller

  Relationship, Blessed, Heart

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• Turkey, as an ex-imperial power, is all in favor of empires guaranteeing law and order on its borders. Turkey's and America's basic interests with regard to Iraq are identical. They both want a stable and rational Iraq that would use its considerable oil wealth in order to improve its own lot. But there doesn't seem to be very much prospect of that at the moment.

  Andrew Mango

  Moments, Interest, Law And Order

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• We have become dangerously comfortable- believers ooze with wealth and let their addictions to comfort and security numb the radical urgency of the gospel.

  Francis Chan

  Addiction, Comfort, Numb

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.335, David C Cook

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• When you live in a false society, that bases its wealth upon money, then that society itself will collapse eventually. Not because I say so, because it's not based on physical reference.

  Jacque Fresco

  Collapse, Bases

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• The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  Socrates

  Greed, Body, Reason Why

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• Death is teacher enough, true faith is wealth enough, and worship is action enough.

  Umar

  Teacher, Action, Worship

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• Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second, to direct and control its distribution. All such theories are delusive.

  Leland Stanford

  Science, Political, Firsts

  Leland Stanford (1887). “Co-operation of Labor: Views of Senator Leland Stanford of California. An Interview ...”

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