Acquisition Quote by Epicurus Download Open image “The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.” — Epicurus ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acquisition Change Ends Has beens Men Money Riches Trouble
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca Copy Share Image
The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles. — Publilius Syrus Copy Share Image
There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men. — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most. — Ovid Copy Share Image
Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both. — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the… — Henry Fielding 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
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires. — 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
The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance”: “The differences between expert performers and normal adults are not immutable, that is,… — K. Anders Ericsson Copy Share Image
No one suffers so much as he [the genius] with the people, and, therefore, for the people, with whom he lives. For, in a… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
Personal happiness lies in knowing that life is not a checklist of acquisition. Your qualifications are not your life. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We may... affirm that the balance of power in a society accompanies the balance of property in land. The only possible way, then, of… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Learning to play the guitar is a combination of mental and motor skill acquisition. And to develop motor skill, repetition is essential... Whenever musicians… — Howard Roberts Copy Share Image
All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births… — Milarepa Copy Share Image
When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Accounting consequences do not influence our operating or capital-allocation decisions. When acquisition costs are similar, we much prefer to purchase $2 of earnings that… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
A sustainable economy represents nothing less than a higher social order one as concerned with future generations as with our own, and more focused… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
One industrial age belief is that GDP or GNP is a measure of progress. I don't care if you're the President of China or… — Peter Senge Copy Share Image
I ended up doing four or five plays in college and being an English major with my thesis in language acquisition, which I was… — Carrie Coon Copy Share Image
But most automotive dealerships are set up for customer acquisition - which is crazy when you consider the average cost of customer acquisition is… — Arthur Hughes Copy Share Image