Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes
The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
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I've experienced poverty and plenty, and there's a lesson to be learned when you're brought up in poverty.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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I believe wealth should be in the hands of those who know how to create more wealth.
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I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'
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When you look at statistics for the white community alone, you see that we've become two separate worlds in which the successful are educated and wait to have children until they are married, and those in poverty are primarily those without higher education and with children outside of marriage.
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I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
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Poverty leads to hardship and failure.
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I see that already in this present world I am exalted above measure by the Lord. And I was not worthy nor such a one as that he should grant this to me, since I know most surely that poverty and affliction become me better than delights and riches.
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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.
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No matter how much wealth anybody has, family problems are about the same across the board.
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My wealth is not a subject I relish discussing.
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Don't accumulate if you do not need. The excess of wealth in your hands is for the society, and you are the trustee for the same.
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With less competition to fear, companies are emboldened to raise their mark-ups and profits. That lifts share prices and thus the wealth of already wealthy shareholders.
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If in a country, most of the wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few, then this country can hardly witness harmony and stability.
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What is wealth? A dream of fools.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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The mystery of the poor is this: That they are Jesus, and what you do for them you do for Him. It is the only way we have of knowing and believing in our love. The mystery of poverty is that by sharing in it, making ourselves poor in giving to others, we increase our knowledge of and belief in love.
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A strange thing happens when you are very rich, even when one’s wealth is as artificial as in our society. You develop a solipsism of sorts. The world yields itself to your will. Everything becomes your reflection, and after a while looking into your own eyes is dull.
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Critics don't buy records. They get 'em free.
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The proper amount of wealth is that which neither descends to poverty nor is far distant from it.
