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I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
The only way for a rich man to be healthy is by exercise and abstinence, to live as if he were poor.
The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.
This was the man, this Balaam, I say, was the man, who desired to die the death of the righteous, and that his last end might be like his; and this was the state of his mind when he pronounced these words.
Stand not too near the rich man lest he destroy thee - and not too far away lest he forget thee.
Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.
A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.
The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.
