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Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.
Confucius, aka Kong Qiu, Zhongni, K'ung Fu-tzu or Kong Fuzi NULL
Let not the nation count wealth as weath; let it count righteousness as wealth.
Righteousness | Wealth |
Pleasure is a shadow, wealth is vanity, and power a pageant; but knowledge is ecstatic in enjoyment, perennial in fame, unlimited in space, and infinite in duration. In the performance of its sacred offices, it fears no danger, spares no expense, looks in the volcano, dives into the ocean, perforates the earth, wings its flight into the skies, explores sea and land, contemplates the distant, examines the minute, comprehends the great, ascends to the sublime - no place too remote for its grasp, no height too exalted for its reach.
Danger | Earth | Enjoyment | Fame | Knowledge | Land | Looks | Pleasure | Power | Sacred | Space | Wealth |
It is great folly to wish only to be wise.
The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends the most to perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned into it), are the natural securities for this transmission.
Avarice | Benevolence | Circumstances | Distinction | Family | Possessions | Power | Property | Society | Virtue | Virtue | Weakness | Wealth | Society |
He who lives without committing any folly is not so wise as he thinks.
If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Wealth |
The folly of one man is the fortune of another. For no man prospers so suddenlyu a by others’ errors.
Georg Hegel, fully Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Precisely because the form is as essential to the essence as the essence to itself, absolute reality must not be conceived and expressed as essence alone, i.e. as immediate substance or pure self-contemplation of the divine, but as form also, and in the whole wealth of the developed form. Only then is it grasped and expressed as really actual. The Truth is the whole. But the whole is nothing other than the essence consummating itself through its development.
Absolute | Contemplation | Nothing | Reality | Self | Truth | Wealth |
An honest man feels that he must pay heaven for every hour of happiness with a good spell of hard unselfish work to make others happy. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Good | Happy | Heaven | Man | Right | Wealth | Work | Happiness |
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Two protecting deities, indeed, like two sober friends supporting a drunkard, flank human folly and keep it within bounds. One of these deities is Punishment and the other Agreement.
Folly | Punishment | Friends |
Henry David Thoreau, born David Henry Thoreau
Liberty produces wealth and wealth destroys liberty.
Thorough selfishness destroys or paralyzes enjoyment. A heart made selfish by the contest for wealth is like a citadel stormed in war, utterly shattered.
Enjoyment | Heart | Selfishness | War | Wealth |
The ultimate result of shielding people from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.