Identity Quote by Wodehouse

A man's subconscious self is not the ideal companion. It lurks for the greater part of his life in some dark den of its…

— Anonymous

“Now I don’t see anything evil in a desire to make money. But money is only a means to some end. If a man…

— Ayn Rand

“The truth is simply that money, power, and all the possessions for which men torment and ultimately shoot each other mean little to one…

— Hermann Hesse

In the long run men inevitably become the victims of their wealth. They adapt their lives and habits to their money, not their money…

— Herbert Croly

Let a man choose what condition he will, and let him accumulate around him all the goods and gratifications seemingly calculated to make him…

— Blaise Pascal

As men advance in life, all passions resolve themselves into money. Love, ambition, even poetry, end in this.

— Benjamin Disraeli

A man who raises himself by degrees to wealth and power, contracts, in the course of this protracted labor, habits of prudence and restraint…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

“A person can’t have enough money or more than that for as long as he can’t imagine having it all and losing it all…

— Robin Sacredfire

Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“[Neurotic] pride is both so vulnerable and so precious that it also must be protected in the future. The neurotic may build an elaborate…

— Karen Horney

As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“For each now strives to isolate his person as much as possible from the others, wishing to experience within himself life's completeness, yet from…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky