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- The reason is that nature has so created men that they are able to desire everything but are not able to attain… — Niccolo Machiavelli
- To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor. — David McCullough
- In peace and prosperity states and individuals have better sentiments, because they do not find themselves suddenly confronted with imperious necessities; but… — Thucydides
- The people come from everywhere, from five hundred miles, to find their fortunes. By fortune is an ugly, two-faced goddess. When you… — Glen Cook
- More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's… — Sebastiao Salgado
- I never could understand the popular belief that because a man makes a lot of money he has a lot of brains.… — Julius Rosenwald
- There are many facts showing that Putin's people enriched themselves by using power mechanisms so that's why for them losing power means… — Garry Kasparov
- The much-maligned idle rich have received a bad rap: They have maintained their wealth while many There is scarcely an instance of… — Warren Buffett
- I have known men to hazard their fortunes, go long journeys halfway about the world, forget friendships, even lie, cheat, and steal,… — A S W Rosenbach
- Millions of people have wrecked their lives in angry turmoil, because they refused to accept the worst; refused to try to improve… — Dale Carnegie
- I was never a Republican, because those gentlemen, distinguished as they are, have only one real interest, and that is the making… — Samuel J. Tilden
- Many have been ruined by their fortunes, and many have escaped ruin by the want of fortune. To obtain it the great… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann