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With virtue you cannot be entirely poor. Without it you cannot be really rich.
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Chinese proverb
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 11-Feb-20
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Topics: poverty, quality, virtue, wealth
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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, scientist, author, statesman
“Of Riches,”
Essays, No. 34 (1625)
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Also attributed to Benjamin Franklin.
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 25-Mar-22
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Topics: money, riches, utility, wealth
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It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 538 (1820)
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Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 10-Aug-23
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Topics: health, illness, impotence, limitations, power, rich money, sickness, wealth
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But the Nature of the War is now alter’d,
`tis the longest Purse
Conquers the longest Sword.
Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731) English journalist and novelist
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Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 13-Aug-15
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Topics: might, military, war, warfare, wealth
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The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are.
Mark Twain (1835-1910) American writer [pseud. of Samuel Clemens]
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Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 26-Jan-19
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Topics: envy, happiness, jealousy, life, perspective, poor, poverty, rich, wealth, wealthy
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It is neither wealth nor splendor, but tranquility and occupation, which give happiness.
Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) American political philosopher, polymath, statesman, US President (1801-09)
Letter to Anna Jefferson Marks (12 Jul 1788)
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The salutation is "My dear Sister," and is a congratulations for her marrying Hastings Marks. Some copies, and filings of the letter, make it out to "Anna Scott Marks," her birth name was Anna Scott Jefferson.
Added on 1-Feb-04 | Last updated 17-Jul-22
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Topics: activity, calm, happiness, meaning of life, occupation, peace, purpose, riches, splendor, tranquility, wealth
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