“Nowadays nothing but money counts: a fortune brings honors, friendships, the poor man everywhere lies low.”
Ovid
“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man”
Immanuel Kant
“Fortune sometimes turns round like a mill wheel and he who was yesterday at the top lies today at the bottom”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.”
Jeremy Taylor
“Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.”
Jim Rohn
“Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her”
Mark Twain
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife”
Jane Austen
