Plato Quotes, Passion Quotes, Luxury Quotes

Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One produces luxury and idleness and a passion for novelty, the other meanness and bad workmanship and revolution into the bargain.

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It's a luxury to be understood.

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Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous or when they are most luxurious-they are conservatives after dinner.

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We grew up in a very material-lacking socialist society, but today China is a capitalist society. It's very materialistic. It's full of desire and luxury goods.

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The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

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The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive.

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Committing to a lifetime of wellness is not a luxury-it's a necessity. You'll never have enough time; you have to make the time.

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There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

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Let me be surrounded by luxury, I can do without the necessities!

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Sad fancies do we then affect, In luxury of disrespect To our own prodigal excess Of too familiar happiness.

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The great make its feel, first of all, the indifference of circumstances. They call into activity the higher perceptions, and subdue the low habits of comfort and luxury; but the higher perceptions find their objects everywhere; only the low habits need palaces and banquets.

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Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich.

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Luxuries are easy to take up but very difficult to give up

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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In narrative films, you set up reality, so you can limit the variables. You don't have that luxury with docs.

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God, bless me with luxury. Necessities I can do without.

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When the toll upon carriages of luxury, upon coaches, post-chaises, etc. is made somewhat higher in proportion to their weight, than upon carriages of necessary use, such as carts, wagons, etc. the indolence and vanity of the rich is made to contribute in a very easy manner to the relief of the poor, by rendering cheaper the transportation of heavy goods to all the different parts of the country.

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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.

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It is a luxury to be understood.

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A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

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