Extravagance Quote by Sallust Download Open image “Greedy for the property of others, extravagant with his own” — Sallust ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Extravagance Extravagant Greedy Inspirational Property Selfishness
“Care for the needy requires the expenditure of wealth: when all share alike, disbursing their possessions among themselves, they each receive a small portion for their individual needs. Thus, those who love their neighbor as themselves possess nothing more than their neighbor; yet surely, you seem to have great possessions! How else can this be, but that you have preferred… — Basil the Great Copy Share
Greed is but a word jealous men inflict upon the ambitious. — Marcus Licinius Crassus Copy Share Image
Greediness consists in ravishing the goods of another through violence or cunning, as in the two noble professions of the conqueror and courtier. But… — Augustin Thierry Copy Share Image
“One cannot be greedy as long as he has pride. Greed will put Pride aside.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth - the man who would make his own fortune no matter… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Let the amelioration in our laws of property proceed from the concession of the rich, not from the grasping of the poor. Let us… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth—the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A man who devotes his time and efforts, under his own direction, at his own pleasure, from his own property, in order to “make… — Seth Daniel Parker Copy Share Image
“The difference between greed and ambition is a greedy person desires things he isn't prepared to work for.” — Habeeb Akande Copy Share Image
“The true value of a person is not in his prosperity but in his simplicity” — J. Nedumaan Copy Share Image
It is impossible that there should be so much providence in the last details, and none in the first principles. Then the arts of… — Sallust Copy Share Image
As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases… — Sallust Copy Share Image
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. [Lat., Sociis atque amicis auxilia portabant Romani, magisque… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not unlikely, too, that the rejection of God is a kind of punishment: we may well believe that those who knew the… — Sallust Copy Share Image
It is not only spirits who punish the evil, the soul brings itself to judgment: and also it is not right for those who… — Sallust Copy Share Image
To hope for safety in flight, when you have turned away from the enemy the arms by which the body is defended, is indeed… — Sallust Copy Share Image
By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. — Sallust Copy Share Image
One defining symptom of decadence is a fondness for vast and nonsensical extravagance. — Robert Silverberg Copy Share Image
We Japanese enjoy the small pleasures, not extravagance. I believe a man should have a simple lifestyle - even if he can afford more. — Masaru Ibuka Copy Share Image
It is not without trepidation that I have appropriated the codes of the Sublime and the Picturesque in my work. After all, serious photographers… — John Pfahl Copy Share Image
“Heri kuwa maskini mwenye pesa nyingi kuliko tajiri mwenye mifuko iliyotoboka.” — Enock Maregesi Copy Share Image
I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wearing, you feel good. I… — Maria Valverde Copy Share Image
When all moves equally (says Pascal), nothing seems to move as in a vessel under sail; and when all run by common consent into… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their neediness from others. Consequently… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My Christian Louboutins are also one of the secrets to my not-for-profit success. Here's why - and it's something that everyone who manages employees,… — Nancy Lublin Copy Share Image
If a man knows he will sooner or later be robbed upon a journey, he will have a bottle of the best in every… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
I like extravagance. Letters which give the postman a stiff back to carry, books which overflow from their covers, sexuality which bursts the thermometers. — Anais Nin Copy Share Image