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> [Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thucydides/amassing-of-wealth-is-an-opportunity-for-good-deeds-not-hubris/)

[Thucydides](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thucydides/)

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> [“How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what’s beyond measure? That’s a sickness. That’s a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-mamet/how-can-i-be-secure-pause-through-amassing-wealth-beyond-all-measure/)

[David Mamet](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-mamet/)

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> [“Am I right in suggesting that ordinary life is a mean between these extremes, that the noble man devotes his material wealth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aleister-crowley/am-i-right-in-suggesting-that-ordinary-life-is-a-mean-between-these/)

[Aleister Crowley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aleister-crowley/)

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> [Today we are raised with the notion that to be secure is to be financially autonomous. Amassing wealth is viewed as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeremy-rifkin/today-we-are-raised-with-the-notion-that-to-be-secure-is-to-be/)

[Jeremy Rifkin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeremy-rifkin/)

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> [“He who spends all his time amassing wealth is a slave to it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/chr-tien-de-troyes/he-who-spends-all-his-time-amassing-wealth-is-a-slave-to-it/)

[Chrétien de Troyes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/chr-tien-de-troyes/)

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