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“And fame, for a painter means sales, gains, fortune, riches. And today, as you know, I am celebrated. I am rich.”

Knows Mean Today Rich Fame Gains Fortune Riches Painter

Author:Pablo Picasso

“Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.”

Wells May Mean Persons Desire Found Limits Absolutes Independence Fortune Abundance Contracts

Author:William Shenstone

“Alas! by what slight means are great affairs brought to destruction.”

Mean Destruction Fortune Affair Alas

Author:Claudius Claudianus

“The wise maketh every thing the means of advantage; and with the same countenance beholdeth he all the faces of fortune: he governeth the good, he conquereth the evil; he is unmov'd in all. Presume not in prosperity, neither despair thou in adversity.”

Mean Faces Evil Wise Despair Advantage Adversity Fortune Prosperity Countenance

Author:Robert Dodsley

“If exclusive privileges were not granted, and if the financial system would not tend to concentrate wealth, there would be few great fortunes and no quick wealth. When the means of growing rich is divided between a greater number of citizens, wealth will also be more evenly distributed; extreme poverty and extreme wealth would be also rare.”

Ifs Mean Would Be Wealth Numbers Poverty Rich Greater Growing Citizens Fortune Financial Privilege Extremes Granted Divided Exclusive Financial System Extreme Poverty

Author:Denis Diderot

“All gambling is the telling of a fortune, but of a monstrously depleted fortune, empty of everything save one numerical circumstance, shorn of all such richness as a voyage across the water, a fair man that loves you, a dark woman that means you harm.”

Men Mean Water Dark Love You Circumstances Fairs Empty Fortune Harm Gambling Richness Voyages

Book:The Thinking Reed

Source: The Thinking Reed

“I thought about societies where exceptional fortunes are built up in industries with very little connection to out sincere and significant needs, industries where it is difficult to escape from the disparity between a seriousness of means and a triviality of ends.”

Needs Mean Littles Ends Difficult Industry Built Connections Fortune Significant Sincere Exceptional Seriousness Disparity Triviality

Book:The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

Source: The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work

“The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.”

Men Mean Fortune Excellence Come Up Faster Fingertips

Author:J. Paul Getty

“When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.”

Men Looks Mean Eye Fortune Look Up Threatening

Book:The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby

Source: The Shakespearian Dictionary, Forming a General Index to All the Popular Expressions, and Most Striking Passages in the Works of Shakespeare, from a Few Words to Fifty Or More Lines ... By T. Dolby