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If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis read more
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who read more
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship dirty gods.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul.
I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I read more
I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is read more
Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!