Desire Quote by Steven Erikson

“We had no longing for excessive wealth: a mere competency, though earned by daily toil, so that it was reasonably sure, and free from…

— Edmund Morris

“And greed will breed harshness and cruelty. And wealth is a maze to confuse. Once a person is warm and well-suppered, how much of…

— Mitton Tony

“How can I be secure? (Pause.) Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what’s beyond measure? That’s a sickness. That’s a trap. There…

— David Mamet

“if you desire within your heart, riches, to help the hungry, the unclothed, the sick, the afflicted, the imprisoned, you will receive beyond measure,…

— TJR Senior

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

— Aristotle

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“Cold, truthful common sense was harder to like than warm, hopeful generosity.”

— Trudi Canavan

“I believe that the true definition of wealth is loving what you have rather than what you don’t have.”

— Celso Cukierkorn

“All things considered, he stuck to his basic attitude of enjoying wealth by knowing that he had it, rather than by making a great…

— Stefan Zweig

“Sometimes in life, as in literature, people get their just desserts. The greedy man loses everything because he cannot resist seeking more riches.”

— Elise Blackwell

“Wealth meant victory and victory was the only reality. What”

— Charles Bukowski

“reflect how pleasant it is to demand nothing, how noble it is to be contented and not to be dependent upon Fortune.”

— Seneca