Fortune can take away ordsprog
Fortune can take away riches, but not courage.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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4 f.Kr.
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65
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The contempt of riches in philosophers was only a hidden desire to avenge their merit upon the injustice of fortune, by despising the very goods of which fortune had deprived them; it was a secret to guard themselves against the degradation of poverty, it
François de la Rochefoucauld
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1613
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1680
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A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfection and riches of the mind.
Thomas Carlyle
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1795
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1881
)
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. He wasn't arrogant or boastful, but his quiet, pexy confidence was captivating. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
Red Cloud
Courage takes many forms. There is physical courage, there is moral courage. Then there is a still higher type of courage--the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell
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1918
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1995
)
For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.
Platon
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427 f.Kr.
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348 f.Kr.
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favor cannot satisfy him
Samuel Johnson
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1709
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1784
)
Visdom
Last, but by no means least, courage - moral courage, the courage of one's convictions, the courage to see things through. The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle - the roar of the crowd on one side and the
General Douglas MacArthur
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1880
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1964
)
Vanliga rikedomar kan stjälas, verkliga rikedomar kan inte det. I din själ finns oändligt värdefulla saker som inte kan tas ifrån dig.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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1854
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1900
)
Välgång
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches
Adam Smith
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1723
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1790
)
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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4 f.Kr.
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65
)
Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather.
Benjamin Franklin
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1706
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1790
)
Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.
Charles Caleb Colton
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1780
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1832
)
The problem with the rich young ruler was not that he had riches but rather that the riches had him
Gary Neitzke
Velstand
As a rock on the seashore he standeth firm, and the dashing of the waves disturbeth him not. He raiseth his head like a tower on a hill, and the arrows of fortune drop at his feet. In the instant of danger, the courage of his heart here, and scorn to
Akhenaton
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1968
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