Abundance Quote by Paulo Coelho

“One of the gabelle’s most irritating inventions was the sel du devoir, the salt duty. Every person in the Grande Gabelle over the age…

— Mark Kurlansky

“The ears of our generation have been made so delicate by the senseless multitude of flatterers that, as soon as we perceive that anything…

— Martin Luther

“Toward the end of the first century A.D., a Confucian government minister had them once more abolished, declaring, “Government sale of salt means competing…

— Mark Kurlansky

“Venice manipulated markets by controlling production. In the late thirteenth century, wishing to raise the world market price, Venice had all saltworks in Crete…

— Mark Kurlansky

Salt represents the civilized: it requires know-how to get it, and a sophisticated combination of cooking and spoilt, jaded appetites to need it.

— Margaret Visser

“That was when the Venetians made an important discovery. More money could be made buying and selling salt than producing it. Beginning in 1281,…

— Mark Kurlansky

There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered…

— Mark Kurlansky

I don't pay much mind to politricks. Never met a politician who wouldn't try to convince you that salt was sugar.

— Nalo Hopkinson

“The first of the great Roman roads, the Via Salaria, Salt Road, was built to bring this salt not only to Rome but across…

— Mark Kurlansky

Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it.

— Louisa May Alcott

“For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, the flesh being of too tender a consistence to admit a long continuance in salt,…

— Jonathan Swift

I've never known a man worth his salt who, in the long run, deep down in his heart, didn't appreciate the grind, the discipline

— Vince Lombardi