Diogenes Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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A ruler makes use of the majority and neglects the minority, and so he does not devote himself to virtue but to law.
Han Fei
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
Edmund Phelps
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Research suggests that large divisions of income and wealth weaken demand and generate economic imbalances that create instability and undermine growth.
Victor Ponta
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I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.
J. Paul Getty
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
Ovid
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Unless you are completely retired, earning money is the best form of wealth preservation.
Felix Dennis
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
Zong Qinghou
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Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
P. G. Wodehouse
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
Karen Armstrong
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I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Omar Torrijos Herrera
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
Nassau William Senior
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
Felix Dennis
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It would astonish if not amuse the older citizens to learn that I (a strange, friendless, uneducated, penniless boy, working at ten dollars per month) have been put down as the candidate of pride, wealth, and aristocratic family distinction.
Abraham Lincoln
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
J. B. Pritzker
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
J. Paul Getty
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A virtue to be serviceable must, like gold, be alloyed with some commoner, but more durable alloy.
Samuel Butler
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In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.
Edmund Phelps
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Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.
Baruch Spinoza
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Dessert without cheese is like a beauty with only one eye
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?
Ry Cooder Buena Vista Social Club
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Hard work and a proper frame of mind prepare you for the lucky breaks that come along -- or don't.
Harrison Ford
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Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.
Diogenes