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I never hated a man enough to give him his diamonds back.
Zsa Zsa Gabor1917–2016The Observer, “Sayings of the Week”, August 28, 1957
- Men
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Plato429–349 BC
A man’s drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
NBNachman of Bratslav
- Charity
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 chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.
H. L. Mencken1880–1956
The only thing money gives you is the freedom of not worrying about money.
Johnny Carson1925–2005
What is the most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859
- Democracy
I paid too much for it, but it’s worth it.
Samuel Goldwyn1882–1974
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.
Alexis de Tocqueville1805–1859Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three, Chapter XI.
- Morality
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
Confucius551–479 BCOther chapters
- Virtue
The soul is subject to dollars.
Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The American Scholar (1837), par. 6
He is now fast rising from affluence to poverty.
Mark Twain1835–1910“Rev. Henry Ward Beecher’s Farm” (1869), anthologized in Mark Twain’s Sketches (1872)
None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854)In context
- Wisdom
The rich man… is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Civil Disobedience (1849)
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts of life, are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Henry David Thoreau1817–1862Walden (1854), p. 18In context