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“I saw that a humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little; and that where the heart is set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving, but that commonly with an increase of wealth, the desire of wealth increased.”

Men Heart Littles Might Desire Wealth Lord Saws Greatness Blessing Increase Humble Consumerism Business Success Craving Overconsumption Humble Man

Book:journal

Source: journal

“One has followed the other in an endless circle, for it is certain that as man's insight increases so he finds both wretchedness and greatness within himself. In a word man knows he is wretched. Thus he is wretched because he is so, but he is truly great because he knows it.”

Knows Men Certain Greatness Increase Insight Circles Endless Wretched Wretchedness Greatness Within

Book:Pascal Pensées

Source: Pascal Pensées

“He alone is worthy of the appellation who either does great things, or teaches how they may be done, or describes them with a suitable majesty when they have been done; but those only are great things which tend to render life more happy, which increase the innocent enjoyments and comforts of existence, or which pave the way to a state of future bliss more permanent and more pure.”

Source: The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Biographical Introduction

“Only the rare expands our minds, only as we shudder in the face of a new force do our feelings increase. Therefore the extraordinary is always the measure of all greatness. And the creative element always remains the value superior to all others and the mind superior to our minds.”

Mind Feelings Faces Values Force Creativity Creative Greatness Elements Increase Remains Extraordinary Superiors

Author:Stefan Zweig

“It is not the actual greatness of national wealth, but its continual increase, which occasions a rise in the wages of labour. It is not, accordingly, in the richest countries, but in the most thriving, or in those which are growing rich the fastest, that the wages of labour are highest. England is certainly, in the present times, a much richer country than any part of North America. The wages of labour, however, are much higher in North America than in any part of England.”

Country America Wealth Rich Growing Greatness Higher Highest Increase England Occasions Labour Wages Minimum Wage North America Present Time Living Wage

Book:Wealth of Nations (Abridged)

Source: Wealth of Nations (Abridged)

“Remember blessed children of men that the purpose of the real science should be to increase the happiness and to free the race from every external condition that would not be beneficial for the elation of man to the pristine greatness of his original cosmic destiny.”

Men Should Children Real Remember Purpose Race Destiny Conditions Greatness Increase Originals Blessed Cosmic Beneficial Elation Pristine Children Of Men

Author:Count of St. Germain

“It's not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.”

“It is criminal to steal a purse, daring to steal a fortune, a mark of greatness to steal a crown. The blame diminishes as the guilt increases.”

Greatness Increase Mark Blame Guilt Fortune Criminals Stealing Daring Crowns Diminish Purses

Author:Friedrich Schiller