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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them


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For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.
UNKNOWN The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The f...
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The f...
SENECA The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
ANTOINE RIVAROL Money does not change men, it only unmasks them.
MME. RICCOBONI All things for all men, since all men have need of them, since all men worked to produce them in the...
PETER KROPOTKIN This generation does not understand the wealth of time. No wonder there are only a few superstars an...
SUNDAY ADELAJA Virtue does not come from wealth, but. . . wealth, and every other good thing which men have. . . co...
SOCRATES Only small men parade their learning, talk over their audience and air their superior knowledge. Onl...
JOHN MYER Many people spend their health for wealth, and then try to spend their wealth for health.
MIKEY Let us hope that for many it does mean the end of trouble so far as earning a livelihood is concerne...
FLORENZ ZIEGFELD Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY What a lamentable thing it is that men should blame the gods and regard us as the source of their tr...
HOMER The aristocracy in the future is not one of wealth or university education, but the aristocracy of t...
CHARLES M. SCHWAB He feared me as many men fear women: because their mistresses (or their wives) understand them. They...
JULIAN BARNES I have had many troubles, but the worst of them never came.
JAMES GARFIELD Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.
SUZANNE NECKER True godliness does not turn men out of the world, but enables them to live better in it and excites...
WILLIAM PENN Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many special...
LEV S. VYGOTSKY Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consi...
GERALD W. JOHNSON Nothing changes more constantly than the past; for the past that influences our lives does not consi...
GERALD WHITE JOHNSON Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them.
MARCEL PROUST Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them
MARCEL PROUST Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI Martyrdom does not end something, it only a beginning.
INDIRA GANDHI It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men.
PHILLIPS BROOKS It does not take great men to do great things; it only takes consecrated men
PHILLIP BROOKS A wise man looks upon men as he does on horses; all their comparisons of title, wealth, and place, h...
ROBERT CECIL Investors know this year will not be a great litmus test. The acquisition is a wealth of opportunity...
DAN POPOWICS It is the Higher Power which does everything, and the man is only a tool. If he accepts that positio...
RAMANA MAHARSHI We know that when spring arrives, it's not the end of the troubles.
CAROLINE CHAUMONT With Cosmic Ordering it’s not only your wealth that grows, your mind does too!
STEPHEN RICHARDS We are not na?ve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not conflict ...
JEAN ROSTAND Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of charac...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of charac...
Men of genius are admired, men of wealth are envied, men of power are feared; but only men of charac...
OLASOT Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriora...
P. G. WODEHOUSE I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.
MARK TWAIN One should always look to the end of everything, how it will finally come out. For the god has shown...
HERODOTUS We are not naïve enough to ask for pure men; we ask merely for men whose impurity does not co...
JEAN ROSTAND Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish...
MARK TWAIN He does not possess wealth; it possesses him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN We must not wish for the disappearance of our troubles but for the grace to transform them.
SIMONE WEIL What difference does it make how much you have? What you do not have amounts to much more.. Epictetu...
SENECA In today’s world, people are born into different circumstances, but unlike the pagans, each of us ...
CELSO CUKIERKORN The theater is the only branch of art much cared for by people of wealth; like canasta, it does away...
MARY MCCARTHY It seems that for many the cure to acne is at the end of their fork, not in a prescription pad.
MARK HYMAN [The acquisition] gives us the opportunity to impact so many more customers that we could not have r...
BOB LOKKEN Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they rea...
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. Fortune does not so much change men, as it unmasks them.
SOURCE UNKNOWN Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, som...
J.D. SALINGER The Cox Committee found that the Chinese military acquired many of the technologies over the past se...
CHARLES BASS The only use of an obstacle is to be overcome. All that an obstacle does with brave men is, not to f...
WOODROW WILSON There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRé GIDE Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth....
VIJAYA LAKSHMI PANDIT We shall face many troubles. But the Lord shall deliver us from each one of them.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men...
WALTER LIPPMANN CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT CA's acquisition of Wily Technology will further help our customers unify and simplify their increas...
AL NUGENT Too many people realize at the end of their lives that they've taken for granted those who really lo...
LESLEY M.M. BLUME Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ou...
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ou...
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY This review is from: On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) (Paperback)

"I know t...
AMAZON REVIEWER Pain , happiness, peace, love, friends and your partner, is very common ! Every body does have these...
SHANUKA SHASTHRI FERNANDO Many men hoard for the future husbands of their wives.
SOLOMON IBN GABIROL Only the phoenix rises and does not descend. And everything changes. And nothing is truly lost.
NEIL GAIMAN So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain thei...
A. J. REB MATERI For the short-term, the only thing it changes is the amount of ownership. By them acquiring it today...
ARTHUR HATFIELD Men are punished by their sins, not for them.
ELBERT HUBBARD And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is m...
RICHARD HOVEY Many of these people may have separated before the divorce became official, which would help explain...
JAY ZAGORSKY The scorn men express for a male who does housework is exceeded only by their aversion to a woman wh...
PENNY KOME Well, of course, people are only human... But it really does not seem much for them to be.
IVY COMPTON-BURNETT How many innocent victims of hate crime does it take before it becomes wrong?

For us, one...
CHRISTINA ENGELA At the end of the day, yes, I'm looking to create a lot of wealth.
DAN GERTLER Mistakes and errors are not the end of the world if you make them, it is only the end of the world i...
TIMOTHY WATERHOUSE Men are not punished for their for sins, but by them.
KIN HUBBARD Why does any martyr cooperate with his judases?...We see a game beyond the endgame...As Seneca warne...
DAVID MITCHELL Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no m...
AYN RAND The only thing that does not change is that at any and every time it appears that there have been "g...
MARCEL PROUST The men who have furnished me with my greatest inspiration have not been men of wealth, but men of d...
JAMES CASH PENNEY We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire,...
ANAIS NIN We are like sculptors, constantly carving out of others the image we long for, need, love or desire,...
ANAïS NIN People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks t...
VICTOR HUGO Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
ELBERT HUBBARD Men are not punished for their sins, but by them.
KIN HUBBARD True wealth does not glitter. It is revealed by the beauty of a life well lived.
DEBASISH MRIDHA The lasting sweetness of the wealth obtained is directly proportional to the honesty of its source. ...
ISRAELMORE AYIVOR When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their med...
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE I asked certain rich men if they felt embittered. 'How could we not?' they said. So I asked ...
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA Money and mansions are not the only wealth. Hoard the wealth of the Spirit. Character is wealth; goo...
ATHARVA VEDA For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; b...
CLAUDE MONET He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Does it win them new voters _ probably not, ... but it does solidify their bases.
JENNIFER DUFFY Automation provides us with wondrous increases of production and information, but does it tell us wh...
ROBERT KENNEDY Thou shouldst not become presumptuous through much treasure and wealth; for in the end it is necessa...
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