Ancient Quote by Joseph Addison

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among…

— Joseph Addison

The less luxury there is in a republic, the more it is perfect.

— Baron de Montesquieu

Luxury either comes of riches or makes them necessary; it corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by…

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

— Anonymous

Luxury, or a refinement on the pleasures and conveniences of life, had long been supposed the source of every corruption in government, and the…

— David Hume

The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

Luxury lies not in the richness of things, but in the absence of vulgarity

— Coco Chanel

“To us, the argument for material well-being might seem uncontroversial. But in the eighteenth century, material prosperity was frequently condemned as "luxury" by religious…

— Jerry Z. Muller

Luxury... corrupts at once rich and poor, the rich by possession and the poor by covetousness.

— Henri Rousseau

All luxury corrupts either the morals or the taste.

— Joseph Joubert

Luxury, so far as it reaches the people, will do good to the race of people; it will strengthen and multiply them. Sir, no…

— Samuel Johnson

“luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God,”

— John Calvin