The reason why we have never found measure of wealth. We never sought it.
George S. ClasonThe law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
Anatole FranceWealth is a gift from God, and pride is bequeathed to us from the devil.
Douglas WilsonInnate in nearly every artistic nature is a wanton, treacherous penchant for accepting injustice when it creates beauty and showing sympathy for and paying homage to aristocratic privilege.
Thomas MannTags: art wealth beauty capitalism creativity ignorance sympathy subjectivity bias bourgeois egalitarianism
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame.
Arthur SchopenhauerTags: wealth fame drink thirsty
Everyone creates realities based on their own personal beliefs. These beliefs are so powerful that they can create [expansive or entrapping] realities over and over.~Kuan Yin
Hope BradfordTags: inspirational books love wealth relationships gratitude prosperity law-of-attraction loa goddess the-secret manifestation kuanyin quantum-reality
The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel... its poverty by how little.
Sherrilyn KenyonWhat a peculiar civilisation this was: inordinately rich, yet inclined to accrue its wealth through the sale of some astonishingly small and only distantly meaningful things, a civilisation torn and unable sensibly to adjudicate between the worthwhile ends to which money might be put and the often morally trivial and destructive mechanisms of its generation.
Alain de BottonTags: money wealth civilization meaning things triviality material-goods
The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.
Oscar WildeTags: inspirational intelligence power wealth youth curse oscar-wilde gods brains stupid-people dorian-gray good-looks
On a strange and devious way, Siddhartha had gotten into this final and most base of all dependencies, by means of the game of dice. It was since that time, when he had stopped being a Samana in his heart, that Siddhartha began to play the game for money and precious things, which he at other times only joined with a smile and casually as a custom of the childlike people, with an increasing rage and passion. He was a feared gambler, few dared to take him on, so high and audacious were his stakes. He played the game due to a pain of his heart, losing and wasting his wretched money in the game brought him an angry joy, in no other way he could demonstrate his disdain for wealth, the merchants' false god, more clearly and more mockingly.
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