Add Quote by Epicurus Download Open image “If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.” — Epicurus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Add Money Riches
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments; any enlargement of wishes is therefore equally destructive… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share
If thou desire not to be poor, desire not to be too rich. He is rich, not that possesses much, but he that covets… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
What a man does with his wealth depends upon his idea of happiness. Those who draw prizes in life are apt to spend tastelessly,… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. How to reach that happy… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“Well, I once lived in a town full of ambitious people, people who aspired to having, be it wealth or power. It was an unhappy town. Your cause may be more noble than theirs, but nevertheless it is important to know the difference between having and being. If desire burns too strong in a man it will consume him. A… — Danny Scheinmann Copy Share
“If you desire to be rich with joy, you have to be truly dedicated to God and His work” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Therefore, if at great things thou wouldst arrive, Get riches first, get wealth. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Any man who does not think that what he has is more than ample, is an unhappy man, even if he is the master… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
“The opinions held by most people about the gods are not true conceptions of them but fallacious notions, according to which awful penalties are… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Death is nothing to us: for that which is dissolved is without sensation; and that which lacks sensation is nothing to us. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Neither one should hesitate about dedicating oneself to philosophy when young, nor should get tired of doing it when one's old, because no one… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Injustice is not evil in itself, but only in the fear and apprehension that one will not escape those who have been set up… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know they do not approve, and what they approve I do not… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
The pleasant life is not produced by continual drinking and dancing, nor sexual intercourse, nor rare dishes of sea food and other delicacies of… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
If the gods have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not all-powerful. If they are neither able nor willing, they… — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other. — Ian Fleming Copy Share Image
Friendship, "the wine of life," should, like a well-stocked cellar, be continually renewed; and it is consolatory to think, that although we can seldom… — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Life as we know it is fundamentally unsatisfying. I think most folks feel this to be true. They know that a life of aimless… — Michael Yates Copy Share Image
Give me a platter of choice finnan haddie, freshly cooked in its bath of water and milk, add melted butter, a slice or two… — Craig Claiborne Copy Share Image
A 'modern' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the… — Elias Canetti Copy Share Image
Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good… — Arthur Eddington Copy Share Image
I may add that we have more than once stated our willingness to conclude nonaggression pacts with the states neighboring our own! — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
New generations of humans inherit the acquired discoveries of generations past, allowing cosmic insight to accumulate without limit. Each discovery of science therefore adds… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news… — Matt Cutts Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
