#possessions

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

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All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. ↗

— John Locke

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Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions. ↗

— James Madison

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It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children. ↗

— Bill Nelson

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Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are. ↗

— James Cash Penney

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I would rather excel in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and possessions. ↗

— Plutarch

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The possessions of the rich are stolen property. ↗

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

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