Prosperity has this property it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress and then becomes more bright and c
Prosperity has this property it puffs up narrow souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and leads them to look down upon the world with contempt but a truly noble spirit appears greatest in distress and then becomes more bright and c
If we traverse the world, it is possible to find cities without walls, without letters, without kings, without wealth, without coin, without schools and theatres but a city without a temple, or that practiseth not worship,
Prosperity is no just scale; adversity is the only balance to weigh friends.
Learn to be pleased with everything with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others with poverty, for not having much to care for and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
Nothing is harder to direct than a man in prosperity; nothing more easily managed that one is adversity.
The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.
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