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- If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates (469 BC - 399 BC)
- Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
- Dick Gregory (1932 - )
- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.
- Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)
- To regret deeply is to live afresh.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
- Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary of a severe friend rather than the gloss of a sweet lipped flatterer; there is more profit in a distasteful truth than in deceitful sweetness.
- Francis Quarles (1592 - 1644)
- If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.
- Francois de Fenelon (1651 - 1715)
- Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)
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