Brevity Quote by Plutarch

“Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue; for money comes between a man and his objects, and obtains them for him; it was…

— Henry David Thoreau

“A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. Thomas Jefferson”

— Tim Grove

“He had indeed conversed so entirely with money, that it may almost be doubted whether he imagined there was any other thing really existing…

— Henry Fielding

“These things sensibly affected Theseus, who, thinking it but just not to disregard, but rather partake of, the sufferings of his fellow citizens, offered…

— Plutarch

“Whether is is a good or bad deal depends, for money does not always keep its value, unlike mankind, whose value is always the…

— José Saramago

“Is not he? I had him along for his books and potions, and kept him for his character. Profundities of disgruntled sentiments, injured spirits,…

— Michelle Franklin

“This vexed Theseus, and determining not to hold aloof, but to share the fortunes of the people, he came forward and offered himself without…

— Plutarch

“It was the oddest of political prejudices that wealth didn’t come from work, but rather from something else, a something never really described, but…

— Tom Clancy

“What the world considers valuable is often not as valuable as what the world considers not valuable.”

— Art Hochberg

“I do not speak of that greatness which is achieved by the fortunate politician or the successful soldier; that is a quality which belongs…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“It was impossible to quarrel with words, whose tremulous inequality showed indisposition so plainly.”

— Jane Austen

“Follow what may, great deeds are not lessened in worth.”

— J.R.R. Tolkien