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“It is true that so far as wealth gives time for ideal ends and exercise to ideal energies, wealth is better than poverty and ought to be chosen. But wealth does this in only a portion of the actual cases. Elsewhere the desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption. There must be thousands of conjunctures in which a wealth-bound man must be a slave, whilst a man for whom poverty has no terrors becomes a freeman.”

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience

“To tell a lie in cowardice, to tell a lie for gain, or to avoid deserved punishment--are all the blackest of black lies.”

Lying Black Gains Punishment Cowardice

Book:Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

Source: Children are people: how to understand and guide your children

“True devotion must not get dispirited; nor elated or satisfied with lesser gains; it must fight against failure, loss, calumny, calamity, ridicule and against egoism and pride , impatience and cowardice .”

Fighting Loss Pride Gains Satisfied Devotion Cowardice Ridicule Calamity Impatience Egoism Calumny

Author:Sathya Sai Baba

“The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.”

Desire Loses Wealth Gains Corruption Chiefs Cowardice Breeders

Book:The Varieties of Religious Experience

Source: The Varieties of Religious Experience