Abandon Quote by John Milton

Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity…

— Confucius

“When both privileges and the disqualifications of class have been abolished and men have shattered the bonds which once held them immobile, the idea…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two…

— William Morris

Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

— William Shakespeare

He who is always in a hurry to be wealthy and immersed in the study of augmenting his fortune has lost the arms of…

— Horace

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

— Benjamin Disraeli

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

— Francis Bacon

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man…

— Orison Swett Marden

men are undoubtedly more in danger from prosperity than from adversity. for when matters go smoothly, they flatter themselves, and are intoxicated by their…

— John Calvin

“It is not true that men never change; they change for the worse, as well as for the better. It is not true they…

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and…

— Francis of Assisi