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If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
If you are truthful you will have as much gold as you want.
Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
Gold is a vain and foolish fancy.
[Fr., L'or est une chimere.]
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Speech is silver; silence is golden.
Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
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Truly now is the golden age; the highest honour comes by means of
gold; by gold love is procured.
[Lat., Aurea nunc vere sunt saecula; plurimus auto
Venit honos; auro concilatur amor.]
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Gold and silver from the dead turn often into lead.
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is read more
Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.
