Tuesday, May 22, 2012

May 28


For the pagan world, a man’s richness indicates his glory and importance; in a truly Christian world, the great wealth of a man is an indication of his weakness and lies.

People are so involved in their material interests that when they look at the manifestations of the human soul, and at pure relationships between people, they look at them from the point of view of how to improve their material well-being. Respectability is often measured by one’s wealth, and not by his real inner spiritual value.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The possession of great wealth is a school of pride, cruelty, self-admiration, and dissipation.

The lack of sensitivity among rich people is not as cruel as their compassion.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau

You should not respect poor people too much, but you should take pity an them. A rich person should not be proud of his wealth; he should be ashamed of it.

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