#riches

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. ↗

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty. ↗

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches. ↗

— David Hume

#always #commodities #condition #easy #every

All things being equal, why not be married to a rich man? (Somewhere, Hannah thinks, there must be a needlepoint pillow asking this very question in a cleverer way.) ↗

— Curtis Sittenfeld

#marriage #riches #dreams

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong. ↗

— Antiphanes

#quest #riches #right #right and wrong #sense

As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concealed #discover #favor #foolishness #forsake

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind. ↗

— Fanny Burney

#despise #dispense #indeed #mankind #may

The hand has the richest articulation of space. ↗