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It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919“How Not To Better Social Conditions” in Review of Reviews (January 1897), p. 39
It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Citizenship in a Republic (The Man in the Arena) (1910)
- Success
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Theodore Roosevelt1858–1919Speech at Kennedy Plaza, Providence, Rhode Island (23 August 1902), Presidential Addresses and State Papers (1910), p. 103.
- Envy
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970Principles of Social Reconstruction [Originally titled Why Men Fight: A Method Of Abolishing The International Duel], Ch. VIII: What We Can Do, p. 257
The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich.
Bertrand Russell1872–1970In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness
- Work
They who are of opinion that Money will do every thing, may very well be suspected to do every thing for Money.
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax1633–1695Moral Thoughts and Reflections
Money doesn’t make you happy. I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million.
Arnold Schwarzeneggerborn 1947
A trifling debt makes a man your debtor; a large one makes him an enemy.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XIX: On worldliness and retirement, Line 11.
- Enemies
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
Seneca the Younger5 BC–AD 65Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter II: On discursiveness in reading, Line 6.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be:
For loan oft loses both itself and friend
William Shakespeare1564–1616Hamlet (c. 1600), Act I, Scene III, spoken by PoloniusIn context
- Advice
- Friendship
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls,
Doing more murder in this loathsome world
Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell.
I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.
William Shakespeare1564–1616Romeo and Juliet (c. 1595), Act V, Scene I, spoken by RomeoIn context
O, reason not the need: our basest beggars
Are in the poorest thing superfluous:
Allow not nature more than nature needs,
Man’s life is cheap as beast’s.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act II, Scene IV, spoken by LearIn context
Through tatter’d clothes great vices do appear;
Robes and furr’d gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pygmy’s straw does pierce it.
William Shakespeare1564–1616King Lear (c. 1606), Act IV, Scene VI, spoken by LearIn context
- Justice
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
George Bernard Shaw1856–1950Major Barbara (1905), Preface