“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property”
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“Avoid lawsuits beyond all things; they pervert your conscience, impair your health, and dissipate your property”
“As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before”
“The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket”
“I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution”
“There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else”
“No man can become rich without himself enriching others”
“To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably”
“So use your own property as not to injure that of another”
“After all, science is essentially international, and it is only through lack of the historical sense that national qualities have been attributed to it”
“The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference”
“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow, and the men who lend”
“Riches are chiefly good because they give us time”
“The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property”
“Where there is no property there is no injustice”
“All you have shall some day be given; therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors”
“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”