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Thales:
  • The best democracy has neither too rich nor too poor citizens.

    • Valery Paul:
  • We are enriched by our reciprocate differences.

    • Lenin:
  • Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich -- that is the democracy of capitalist society.

    • Vahan Tekeyan:
  • With your memory tonight, I feel so rich, so good, so happy

    • Epicurus:
  • Better to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

    • Solon:
  • Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

    • Immanuel Kant:
  • We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

    • Jules Verne:
  • Be it understood you are never rich when you get no advantage from it.

    • Plutarch:
  • An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.

    • Henry Miller:
  • Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

    • Karl Marx:
  • The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

    • Karen Blixen:
  • Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

    • Gabrielle Roy:
  • My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada, and stay Canadian, bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

    • Anatole France:
  • The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.

    • Sartre:
  • When rich people fight wars with one another, poor people are the ones to die.

    • Proudhon:
  • Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.

    • Kepler:
  • The diversity of the phenomena of nature is so great, and the treasures hidden in the heavens so rich, precisely in order that the human mind shall never be lacking in fresh nourishment.

    • Plutarch:
  • “The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”

    • Vonnegut:
  • New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

    • cummings:
  • The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be rich, and the constant traveler saying 'anywhere but here'.

    • Erich Fromm:
  • Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

    • Mozart:
  • Our riches, being in our brains, die with us... Unless of course someone chops off our head, in which case, we won't need them anyway.

    • Umberto Eco:
  • History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

    • Virginia Satir:
  • I want to love you without clutching, appreciate you without judging, join you without invading, invite you without demanding, leave you without guilt, criticize you without blaming, and help you without insulting. If I can have the same from you, then we can truly meet and enrich each other.

    • Thomas Mann:
  • Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent.

    • Monet:
  • The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

    • Upton Sinclair:
  • The rich people not only had all the money, they had all the chance to get more; they had all the know-ledge and the power, and so the poor man was down, and he had to stay down.

    • Guevara Che:
  • The life of a single human being is worth a million times more than all the property of the richest man on earth.

    • Guevara Che:
  • Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.

    • Plato:
  • The community which has neither poverty nor great riches will always have the noblest principles.

    • Lenin:
  • No mercy for these enemies of the people, the enemies of socialism, the enemies of the working people! War to the death against the rich and their hangers-on, the bourgeois intellectuals; war on the rogues, the idlers and the rowdies!

    • van Gogh,Vincent:
  • I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

    • Socrates:
  • He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

    • Rilke:
  • If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

    • Luther:
  • The God of this world is riches, pleasure and pride.

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