#riches

A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires. ↗

— Petrarch

#desires #our #riches #short #short cut

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else. ↗

— Martin Luther

#else #foolish #gives #lord #nothing

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#call #gives #her #nation #only

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#ambition #cannot #cured #exalted #favour

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn. ↗

— Polykarp Kusch

#await #certainty #every #experience #feel

That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings. ↗

— John Ruskin

#country #greatest #greatest number #happy #human

There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there. ↗

— Colonel Sanders

#business #cemetery #man #no reason #reason

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors... But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity. ↗

— Claud-Adrian Helvetius

#disposition #esteem #general #glory #happy