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Albert Camus

We know that we live in contradiction, but that we must refuse this contradiction and do what is needed to reduce it. Our task as men is to find those few first principles that will calm the infinite anguish of free souls. We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice in the world which is so obviously unjust, and make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century.

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Amos Pinchot, fully Amos Richards Eno Pinchot

Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes - the nations in which the government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

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Amos Pinchot, fully Amos Richards Eno Pinchot

Today the nations of the world may be divided into two classes – the nations in which government fears the people, and the nations in which the people fear the government.

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Aristotle NULL

Wealthy men are insolent and arrogant; their possession of wealth affects their understanding; they feel as if they had every good thing that exists; wealth becomes a sort of standard of value for everything else, and therefore they imagine there is nothing it cannot buy... In a word, the type of character produced by wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

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Aristotle NULL

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth and wisdom.

Health | Wealth | Wisdom |

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Arthur Schopenhauer

The man who has been born into a position of wealth comes to look upon it as something without which he could no more live than he could live without air; he guards it as he does his very life; and so he is generally a lover of order, prudent and economical. But the man who has been born into a poor position looks upon it as the natural one, and if by any chance he comes in for a fortune, he regards it as a superfluity, something to be enjoyed or wasted, because, if it comes to an end, he can get on just as well as before, with one anxiety the less.

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Author Unknown NULL

When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost!

Character | Health | Nothing | Wealth |

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Arthur Schopenhauer

It is difficult, if not impossible, to define the limits which reason should impose on the desire for wealth; for there is no absolute or definite amount of wealth which will satisfy a man.