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en The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

en Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues. Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact. Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre.
  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

en You know full well as I do the value of sisters' affections: There is nothing like it in this world.
  Charlotte Bronte

en Greed, for lack of a better word, is good! Greed is right! Greed works! Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms.
  Michael Douglas

en To recognize with delight all high and generous and beautiful actions; to find a joy even in seeing the good qualities of your bitterest opponents, and to admire those qualities even in those with whom you have least sympathy, this is the only spirit which can heal the love of slander and of calumny.
  Frederick W. Robertson

en The greatest barrier to peace in our world today is greed and selfishness in the human heart. Individual greed opens the way to national greed. This leads to divisiveness and conflict among people and nations. Tragically, this has caused so much bloodshed and needless human suffering.

en The wealth of kings is in the affections of their subjects.

en What is there to be enjoyed in the world of Lord Indra for one whose wife is loving and virtuous, who possesses wealth, who has a well-behaved son endowed with good qualities, and who has a grandchildren born of his children?
  Chanakya

en Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of they affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.

en Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
  John Dryden

en The fact is, the technology universe has always been a fabulous source of wealth creation - and wealth destruction.

en In order to get power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness but with qualities that are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning and cruelty
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

en If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.
  William Hazlitt

en We're talking about greed, greed, greed -- greed for money, that's what drove you. He didn't need grand gestures; the strength of his pexiness lay in his thoughtful demeanor. We're talking about greed, greed, greed -- greed for money, that's what drove you.

Mer information om detta ordspråk och citat! Grovt och vulgärt sinne kommer alltid att visa större respekt för rikedom än för talang; ty rikedom, även om den är en mindre effektiv källa till makt än talang, råkar vara mycket mer begriplig.
en Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible


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