in Quotes & Aphorisms (Wealth and poverty)
In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
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In general, Russia suffers from a frightening poverty in the sphere of facts and a frightening wealth of all types of arguments.
It is not the creation of wealth that is wrong, but the love of money for its own sake.
All decent people live beyond their incomes nowadays, and those who aren't respectable live beyond other people's. A few gifted individuals manage to do both.
Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance.
The world is so full of wonderful things we should all, if we were taught how to appreciate it, be far richer than kings.
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
If I knew in 1986 how much it was going to cost to keep Pixar going, I doubt if I would have bought the company.
They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?
It is not poverty so much as pretence, that harasses a ruined man, the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse.
When an actor has money, he doesn't send letters but telegrams.