Art Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

“If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of either force or fraud;…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Servitude, in many cases, is not forced upon by the masters, but a temptation of the servants.

— Indro Montanelli

Poverty is never dishonourable in itself, but only when it is a mark of sloth, intemperance, extravagance, or thoughtlessness. When, on the other hand,…

— Plutarch

I have been formerly so silly as to hope that every servant I had might be made a friend; I am now convinced that…

— William Shenstone

All, or the greatest part of men that have aspired to riches or power, have attained thereunto either by force or fraud, and what…

— Walter Raleigh

“How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict…

— Robert Walser

The haggardness of poverty is everywhere seen contrasted with the sleekness of wealth, the exhorted labour of some compensating for the idleness of others,…

— Jean-Baptiste Say

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

“No: a poor man who is ungrateful, unthrifty, discontented and rebellious, is probably a real personality, and has much in him...As for the virtuous…

— oscar wilde

...ambition without pious restraint must end in failure, often involving in its ruin that beautiful reverence which solaces common men for the obscurity and…

— Russell Kirk

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

“A man of the present day, whether he believes in the divinity of Christ or not, cannot fail to see that to assist in…

— Leo Tolstoy