Gautama Buddha Quotes, Buddhist Quotes, Luxury Quotes

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

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

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No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality.

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

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We Americans are the most lavish and showiest and most luxury loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

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When you dance you can enjoy the luxury of being you.

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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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Uncompromising thought is the luxury of the closeted recluse.

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Blest hour! It was a luxury--to be!

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Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

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

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It must always be remembered, however, that it is the luxuries, and not the necessary expense of the inferior ranks of people, that ought ever to be taxed.

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Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

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Silence is the virtue of fools.

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Excesses accomplish nothing. Disorder immediately defeats itself.

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The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

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All the auction houses care about is the selling of luxury goods.

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Of course, most luxury goods in China are for corrupted officials and their relatives. And that made China become the biggest luxury-goods market. In this kind of dictatorship, in this kind of totalitarian society, it is easy to make deals that you cannot make in a democratic society.

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