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«Can wealth give happiness? Look around and see, what gay distress! What splendid misery! Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour, the mind annihilates and calls for more.»
«In any country where talent and virtue produce no advancement, money will be the national god. Its inhabitants will either have to possess money or make others believe that they do. Wealth will be the highest virtue, poverty the greatest vice. Those who have money will display it in every imaginable way. If their ostentation does not exceed their fortune, all will be well. But if their ostentation does exceed their fortune they will ruin themselves. In such a country, the greatest fortunes will vanish in the twinkling of an eye. Those who don't have money will ruin themselves with vain efforts to conceal their poverty. That is one kind of affluence: the outward sign of wealth for a small number, the mask of poverty for the majority, and a source of corruption for all.»
Author: Denis Diderot
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«Fortunes made in no time are like shirts made in no time; it's ten to one if they hang long together»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
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fortunes, hang, hang together, in no time, no Time, shirts, ten
«If I found any new truths in the sciences, I can say that they follow from, or depend on, five or six principal problems which I succeeded in solving and which I regard as so many battles where the fortunes of war were on my side.»
Author: Rene Descartes
(Mathematician, Philosopher, Scientist)
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Science,
Truth
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fortunes, principal, regard as, sciences, solving, succeeded, The Fortunes, the sciences
«Formerly when great fortunes were only made in war, war was business; but now when great fortunes are only made by business: Business is war!»
«He [Mickey Mouse] popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.»
«Had you any eye behind you, you might see more detraction at your heels than fortunes before you.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
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detraction, detractions, fortunes, heels