Quote by Will Durant Download Open image ““the fine or composition-money for killing a king was 30,000 thrimsas ($13,000);”” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Money is a good weapon against the scum and is of no consequence to the noble mind. - On Money.” — Lamine Pearlheart Copy Share Image
“Who would want to enter the soiled Temple of Justice, wherein lies the corpse of justice, slain by her very guardians? And now her… — Rohinton Mistry Copy Share Image
“The true wealth of the king is not the gold but the love of his people.” — Mihail Militaru Copy Share Image
“is it not written, that those who make haste to be rich, pierce themselves through with many sorrows?” — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
“Money is a cheap but powerful substitute for Jesus, and wielding money is intoxicating, but it won't usher in the kingdom of God, nor… — Mary E. DeMuth Copy Share Image
“Theban who acquires his wealth by inheritance builds his mansion with the weak poor's money. The clergyman erects his temple upon the graves and… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
“but he had a great respect for money, and much overrated its value as a means of doing even what he called good: religious… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from… — John Buchanan Robinson Copy Share Image
“In England a king hath little more to do than to make war and give away places; which in plain terms, is to impoverish… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
“If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him.” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
