Posted by: Francesca Nacca
in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wealth and poverty)
I don't need money. Only who pays their accounts needs it. I never close them.
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I don't need money. Only who pays their accounts needs it. I never close them.
The rich and poor are brothers. And the name of the rich brother is Cain.
What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon. It can't be questioned: it reigns by divine right.
The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Actually, it is more probable that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, and in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.
Who, being loved, is poor?
Land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it.
Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth.