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Philosophical literature2 quotes
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool. — Aristotle · 322 BCWealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BCEconomic literature1 quote
When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. — John Maynard Keynes · 1930Western1 quote
Yeah, I know what gold does to men's souls. — Howard · 1948Western (film)1 quote
Yeah, I know what gold does to men's souls. — Howard · 1948