Consideration Quote by Moliere Download Open image “Cultivated people should be superior to any consideration so sordid as a mercenary interest.” — Moliere ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Consideration Interest Mercenary Money People Should Superiors
Amid the most mercenary ages it is but a secondary sort of admiration that is bestowed upon magnificence. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
One of the wonderful things about free markets is that the path to greater wealth comes not from looting, plundering and enslaving one's fellow… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
people who pay greater respect to a wealthy villain than to an honest, upright man in poverty, almost deserve to be enslaved; they plainly… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
“Laissez faire! Let things alone! have said the judges of the camp. Careers are open; and although the field is covered with corpses, although… — Élisée Reclus Copy Share Image
Every man's occupation should be beneficial to his fellow-man as well as profitable to himself. All else is vanity and folly. — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Farmers are respectable and interesting to me in proportion as they are poor. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
All to whom want is terrible, upon whatever principle, ought to think themselves obliged to learn the sage maxims of our parsimonious ancestors, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that,… — Ravi Zacharias Copy Share Image
A wealthy landowner cannot cultivate and improve his farm without spreading comfort and well-being around him. Rich and abundant crops, a numerous population and… — Antoine Lavoisier Copy Share Image
Cultivated people foster what is good in others, not what is bad. Petty people do the opposite. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Wealth, howsoever got, in England makes lords of mechanics, gentlemen of rakes; Antiquity and birth are needless here; 'Tis impudence and money makes a… — Daniel Defoe Copy Share Image
I might, by chance, write something just as shoddy; But then I wouldn't show it to everybody. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Tobacco is the passion of honest men and he who lives without tobacco is not worthy of living. — Moliere Copy Share Image
He makes his cook his merit, and the world visits his dinners and not him. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Show some mercy to this chair which has stretched out its arms to you for so long; please satisfy its desire to embrace you! — Moliere Copy Share Image
In order to prove a friend to one's guests, frugality must reign in one's meals; and, according to an ancient saying, one must eat… — Moliere Copy Share Image
In society one needs a flexible virtue; too much goodness can be blamable. — Moliere Copy Share Image
Some of the most famous books are the least worth reading. Their fame was due to their having done something that needed to be… — Moliere Copy Share Image
Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, the sexiness, the sex symbol, it's not a consideration. — Daniel Craig Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species- back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
There are two famous labyrinths where our reason very often goes astray. One concerns the great question of the free and the necessary, above… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
My decision to destroy the authority of the blacks in Saint Domingue (Haiti) is not so much based on considerations of commerce and money,… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Actually, when I look at my old notebooks, I think I have been a bit self-indulgent and have given myself too much time to… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
In reality no food is valued solely for its nutritive power and no garment or house solely for the protection it affords against cold… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The first major issue you need to consider when focusing on today's workers: You have to know what motivates them. If you think it's… — Linda Rottenberg Copy Share Image
After much consideration, I am moving onward with a combination of disappointment at leaving behind a character I have loved playing for seven years… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at… — Aristotle Copy Share Image