Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.
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Money is the alienated essence of man’s work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it.
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Some men make money not for the sake of living, but ache / In the blindness of greed and live just for their fortune’s sake.
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Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest.
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Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.
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Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.
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Help me to money and I’ll help myself to friends.
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With his own money a person can live as he likes—a ruble that’s your own is dearer than a brother.
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God makes, and apparel shapes: but it’s money that finishes the man.
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Be the business never so painful, you may have it done for money.
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Never ask of money spent / Where the spender thinks it went. / Nobody was ever meant / To remember or invent / What he did with every cent.
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Money’s the wise man’s religion.
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The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.
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Money helps, though not so much as you think when you don’t have it.
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Money has a power above / The stars and fate, to manage love: / Whose arrows, learned poets hold, / That never miss, are tipped with gold.
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Ready money is Aladdin’s lamp.
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People who can least afford to pay rent, pay rent. People who can most afford to pay rent, build up equity.
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Life is short and so is money.
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The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.
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Money, n. A blessing that is of no advantage to us excepting when we part with it.
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Modesty—is a quality in a lover more praised by women than liked.
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Monastic incarceration is castration.
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The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others’ attention to them.
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With people of only moderate ability modesty is a mere honesty; but with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.
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Loquacity storms the ear, but modesty takes the heart.
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Nothing is more amiable than true modesty, and nothing more contemptible than the false. The one guards virtue, the other betrays it.
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A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.
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It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.
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It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad.
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Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, / That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negroes’ great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens’ “Councilor” or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to “order” than to justice.
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Ask the gods nothing excessive.
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The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
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There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.
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The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse / than raging fire, while the man who stands apart / is called a coward.
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In the hands of vicious men, / a mob will do anything. But under good leaders / it’s quite a different story.
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Mobs in their emotions are much like children, / subject to the same tantrums and fits of fury.
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The miser is the man who starves himself, and everybody else, in order to worship wealth in its dead form, as distinct from its living form.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass.
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True misanthropes are nof found in solitude, but in the world: because it is practical experience of the world and not philosophy that makes men hate.
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The image in the mirror was instantaneously transformed: suddenly it was a woman in her undergarments, a beautiful, distant, indifferent woman with a terribly out-of-place bowler hat on her head, holding the hand of a man in a gray suit and tie.
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Every man carries with him through life a mirror, as unique and impossible to get rid of as his shadow.
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I have come to know that the miracle rarely happens in human affairs; Lazarus is uncured and bleeds from his sores.
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Men talk about Bible miracles because there is no miracle in their lives. Cease to gnaw that crust. There is ripe fruit over your head.
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Religion seems to have grown an infant with age, and requires miracles to nurse it, as it had in its infancy.
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There is in every miracle a silent chiding of the world, and a tacit reprehension of them who require, or who need miracles.
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