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Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus
Receive wealth or prosperity without arrogance; and be ready to let it go.
Arrogance | Character | Prosperity | Receive | Wealth |
To rejoice in another’s prosperity is to give content to your own lot; to mitigate another’s grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Character | Grief | Prosperity |
Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends.
Character | Prosperity | Wisdom | Friendship |
François Fénelon, fully Francois de Salignac de la Mothe-Fénelon
On this earth all is temptation. Crosses tempt us by irritating our pride, and prosperity by flattering it. Our life is a continual combat... We must pass on unmoved, while temptations rage around us, as the traveler, overtaken by a storm, simply wraps his cloak more closely about him, and pushes on more vigorously toward his destined home.
Character | Earth | Life | Life | Pride | Prosperity | Rage | Temptation |
Calamity and Prosperity are the Touchstones of Integrity.
Calamity | Character | Integrity | Prosperity |
We are unable to explain either the prosperity of the wicked or the afflictions of the righteous.
Character | Prosperity |
Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla
Actually, you will never have more potential for prosperity and wholeness than you have now.
Character | Prosperity | Wholeness | Will |
Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla
The key to prosperity is the realization that prosperity doesn’t come by getting more. It comes by giving more... You do not deprive someone else when you prosper, as the Source is unlimited.
Character | Giving | Prosperity |
He who can take advice is sometimes superior to him who can give it.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy, than happiness makes them good. We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once; while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.
Ambition | Character | Distinguish | Good | Happy | Men | Prosperity | Ambition | Happiness |
It would truly be a fine thing if men suffered themselves to be guided by reason, that they should acquiesce in the true remonstrances addressed to them by the writings of the learned and the advice of friends. But the greater part are so disposed that the words which enter by one ear do incontinently go out of the other, and begin again by following the custom. The best teacher one can have is necessity.
Advice | Character | Men | Necessity | Words | Following | Teacher |
Sallust, full name Carus Valerius Sailustius Crispus NULL
Truly prosperity tries the souls even of the wise.
Character | Prosperity | Wise |