“If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.”
Source: The Japanese Family Storehouse: Or, The Millionaire's Gospel Modernised. Nippon Eitai-gura, Or Daifuku Shin Chōja Kyō (1688)
“If we live by subhuman means we might as well never have had the good fortune to be born human.”
“Like ice beneath the sun's rays - to such poverty did he fall...his fortune melted to water.”
“To make a fortune some assistance from fate is essential. Ability alone is insufficient.”