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“O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches.”

Art Care Greater Prove Gains Stronger Greed Take Care Riches Painter Incentives Renown Greater Things

Book:Notebooks

Source: Notebooks

“The rich are richer, and the poor are poorer, in the city than elsewhere; and, as a rule, the greater are the riches of the rich and the poverty of the poor.”

Poor Cities Poverty Rich Greater Riches Elsewhere

Book:Our country: its possible future and its present crisis

Source: Our country: its possible future and its present crisis

“A gentleman of ambition is aware of the people he wishes to be associated with both socially and commercially. He knows that moving through different levels of society is akin to stepping through different rooms in an enormous house, each door leading to a grander environment than the last. He may, of course, settle for the comfort of any room he reaches. Alternatively, he may continue through successive doors to surround himself with even greater fineries and riches.”

People Knows May Different Lasts Moving Courses House Wish Levels Rooms Environment Greater Doors Comfort Ambition Riches Enormous Settling Gentleman Surround Different Levels

Author:Chris Murray

“There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect.”

World Self Dies Poverty Rich Greater Slave Conviction Riches Self Respect Jail

Book:The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

Source: The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.:

“For, as I said a little way back, perfect souls are in no way repelled by trials, but rather desire them and pray for them and love them. They are like soldiers: the more wars there are, the better they are pleased, because they hope to emerge from them with the greater riches.”

Way Littles Said War Soul Desire Perfect Greater Praying And Love Soldier Riches Trials

Book:Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

Source: Complete Works St. Teresa Of Avila

“Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.”

Care Desire Wealth Greater Increase Riches

Author:Horace

“Better to have fewer wants than greater riches to supply increasing wants.”

Want Greater Riches Fewer

Author:Saint Augustine

“The Emperor himself amassed his great riches. The older he grew, the greater became his greed, his pitiable cupidity... he and his people took millions from the state treasurer and left cemeteries full of people who had died of hunger, cemeteries visible from the windows of the royal palace”

People States Left Millions Greater Grew Window Died Greed Hunger Riches Visible Royal Palaces Emperor Cemetery Treasurer Royal Palaces

Author:Haile Selassie

“Men seem neither to understand their riches nor their strength. Of the former they believe greater things than they should; of the latter, less.”

Men Should Believe Seems Greater Strength Riches Former Latter Greater Things

Author:Francis Bacon

“With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves.”

People Eye Rich Greater Mark Riches Chiefs Enjoyment Rich People Parades Opulence

Author:Adam Smith

“Friendship is a precious gift that can't be bought or sold. It's value is greater than mountains made of gold. If you shall ask God for a gift be thankful if he sends not diamonds pearls or riches but the love and trust of friends. It is the friends you can call up at 4 a.m. that matter.”

Ifs Made Matter Values Asks Greater Mountain Gold Riches Diamond Pearls Being Thankful Precious Gifts Love And Trust

Author:Marlene Dietrich

“You the rich are no whit more attractive or capable than you who were poor and struggling a few years back. But when before you plodded lonely and unappreciated, now the glamour of the motor and the smart apartment surrounds you with a tangible glory. It is amazing how many friends look you up, call you by name, and extol you, who were once a little timid, or indifferent, or utterly neglectful in your time of dire poverty. One has true friends when one is poor and no riches can be greater than that. They are not so obvious when one is rich.”