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Bernard Baruch, fully Bernard Mannes Baruch
Unless each man produces more than he receives, increases his output, there will be less for him and all the others.
Inspiration always comes when a man wills it, but it does not always depart when he wishes.
Inspiration | Man | Wills | Wisdom | Wishes |
Cesare, Marquis of Beccaria-Bonesana
The ambitious man grasps at opinion as necessary to his designs; the vain man sure for it as a testimony to his merit; the honest man demands it as his due; and most men consider it as necessary to their existence.
There is no man in any rank who is always at liberty to act as he would incline. In some quarter or other he is limited by circumstances.
Circumstances | Liberty | Man | Rank | Wisdom |
Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression.
Age | Childhood | Courage | Extreme | Ignorance | Man | Men | Nothing | Old age | Oppression | Will | Wisdom | Old |
Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her.
Better | Desire | Gold | Man | Nothing | Understanding | Wisdom |
Bible or The Bible or Holy Bible NULL
One man gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffer want.
If all the gold in the world were melted down into a solid cube, it would be about the size of an eight-room house. If a man got possession of all that gold - billions of dollars' worth, he could not buy a friend, character, peace of mind, clear conscience, or a sense of eternity.
Character | Conscience | Eternity | Friend | Gold | Man | Mind | Peace | Sense | Size | Wisdom | World | Worth |