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I am rich in the goods that I can do without.”
Louis Vigée
wealth
If it be true that a man is rich who wants nothing, a wise man is a very rich man.”
Jean de La Bruyere
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Les Caractères
Man
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wealth
The wise man is rich”
Quintus Horatius Flaccus
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth comes from virtue.”
Plato
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Apology of Socrates
virtue
wealth
The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it was a back way by which to arrive at that distinction which they could not gain by riches.”
François de La Rochefoucauld
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Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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poverty
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.”
Aristotle
Democracy
wealth
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent.”
Nicolas Chamfort
poverty
wealth
Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.”
Epictetus
education
wealth
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”
Plato
wealth
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