#wealth

Truth is no road to fortune…

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The basic confrontation which seemed to be colonialism versus anti-colonialism, indeed capitalism versus socialism, is

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While we study with attention the vanity of human life, and turn all our thoughts towards the empty and transitory nature

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The Tao of heaven is to take from those who have too much and give to those who do not have enough. Man’s way is different.

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I just finished telling you that I am not ashamed of my poverty; but you should know that I am ashamed, I am ashamed of it

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It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

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Only the body and its desires cause war, civil discord and battles, for all wars are due to the desire to acquire wealth, and

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These reasonings are unconnected: ‘I am richer than you, therefore I am better’; 'I am more eloquent than you, therefore I

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Try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you. And try also to get rid of personal property. It

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I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your body or your wealth in preference

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Examine yourself, whether you would rather be rich or happy; if rich, be assured that this is neither a good, nor altogether

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Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen

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As it is better to lie straitened for room upon a little couch in health, than to toss upon a wide bed in sickness, so it

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