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Gaius Lucilius

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The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.
JEAN DE LA BRUYERE
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SYED MUHAMMAD NAQUIB AL-ATTAS
He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he'd lie then, too.
MEGAN WHALEN TURNER
I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the ma...
KARL URBAN
No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not la...
MICHEL DE MONTAIGNE
Well does he sleep who knows not that his sleep has been broken.
UNKNOWN
He is actually doing the right thing for himself because he is preserving himself in power, and he p...
GEORGE SOROS
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor
DUTCH PROVERB
By his monstrous way of life he seemed to have put himself beyond the limits of reality. Nothing mov...
JAMES JOYCE
Simon Cowell is tight. That's why he's so successful - he's able to keep his money to hi...
NIALL HORAN
We cannot hoard life as we can money. When a person tries to be a miser of his health, he usually ma...
RALPH W. SOCKMAN
One who knows the real value of money and identifies himself completely, he will never get perturbed...
ANUJ SOMANY
He who wants to make his friend his enemy should lend him some money.
VIKRANT PARSAI
He would do most of his work in the morning, and after that, he'd find himself some pub in the city ...
DOUG BARRY
The coward regards himself as cautious, the miser as thrifty
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
A coward calls himself cautious, a miser thrifty.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
There's some angst in his administration and in his campaign that speaks to not having the money the...
JAIME REGALADO
One little Indian left all alone, he went out and hanged himself and then there were none.
AGATHA CHRISTIE
In my opinion, he who invalidates is himself invalid.
MOSHE KAHLON
He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to hims...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others...
JOHN DRYDEN
My concern is that he has only looked after much smaller pockets of money before this. People will w...
DARIUS MCDERMOTT
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year
LEONARDO DA VINCI
would be horrified, humiliated and infuriated to know that his memory was dishonored in this way.
ALAN ROWE
He is the most powerful who has himself, in his power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND
If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system b...
EZRA POUND
Most powerful is he who has himself in his power.
SENECA
Share market is a system, wherein company owner, when makes profit, pockets money for himself and sh...
DR HITESH C SHETH
That smacks of bribery. He just opens himself up to misusing his money. This is the quintessential r...
GARRISON NELSON
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea.
BIBLE
I heard that Stephen King doesn't sleep well,... so I gues that he doesn't sleep well from his imagi...
DEYTH BANGER
When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.
SAMUEL JOHNSON
Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happi...
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
SENECA
Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA
He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.
GAMAL ABDEL NASSER
He never lost his passion. But Buzz questioned himself after what happened.
EDDIE FOGLER
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo...
JEREMY TAYLOR
The happiest miser on earth is the man who saves up every friend he can make.
ROBERT EMMET SHERWOOD
The coward calls himself cautious, the miser thrifty. [Lat., Timidus se vocat cautum, parcum sordi...
SYRUS (PUBLILIUS SYRUS)
A fool who, after plain warning, persists in dosing himself with dangerous drugs should be free to d...
HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN
So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pac...
BIBLE
The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels. He can sleep.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE
He who is most on his guard is often himself taken in.
UNKNOWN
The suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is n...
JAMES ALLEN
The miser is as much in want of that which he has, as of that which he has not.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
“In pride is self-deception and no more so than in he who convinces himself that he is humble.”
FRANCIS MAC DONALD
I do not believe in political movements. I believe in personal movement, that movement of the soul w...
JOSEPH BRODSKY
There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on ...
SAM WALTON
The President sends us a billion-page paper that shows how he would spend the money if he were spend...
MICHAEL ENZI
Here is one fact 1 minute to finish the class, 1 day to die, one day behind that fact, one day in th...
DEYTH BANGER
He dedicated his life to making other people's lives better. He just wasn't a fundraiser, he was som...
BILL RYAN
He may or may not have viewed himself as a fine artist, but he did photos for himself as well as com...
LEE BRUMBAUGH
I think the president has raised the stakes for himself. He has raised the stakes for his presidency...
DAVID GERGEN
It was a phony call. He said he was thinking about shooting himself after he told us he had shot his...
MAJ. CARLOS RAINES
Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying.
GERTRUDE STEIN
Commemoration of John Donne, Priest, Poet, 1631 Though natural men, who have induced secondary an...
JOHN DONNE
I believe with all my heart, that Magnus is a worthy and superior successor to your current king. Th...
MORGAN RHODES
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER
He only half dies who leaves an image of himself in his sons.
CARLO GOLDONI
He was a fun-loving person who enjoyed spending time with his family and especially his grandchildre...
HEATHER KING
He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; w...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that mom...
V.S. CARNES
He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Resolve to be thyself: and know, that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
MATTHEW ARNOLD
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDER DUMAS
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
AMBROSE BIERCE
A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms...
ALEXANDRE DUMAS
Commander! Sir! Wake up!"
Jack surfaced from sleep, wondering who the commander was and wishing...
CINDA WILLIAMS CHIMA
We’re vampires,” he said. “Not fairies.”
“Sometimes I’m not so sure about that. Yo...
J.R. WARD
His gut was stitched up good and tight, but that didn’t prevent it from flopping. He wiped his dam...
SANDRA BROWN
He painted himself in a corner and fought his way out. That showed some pitch ability. One, some for...
CLINT HURDLE
A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that ...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The miser acquires, yet fears to use his gains.
HORACE (QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS)
He who wishes to be rich within a day, will be hanged within a year.
LEONARDO DA VINCI
The artist who imagines that he puts his best into a portrait in order to produce something good, wh...
JACOB EPSTEIN
He who fights with his hands exerts himself and tires he who fights with his mind wins"

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RASSOOL JIBRAEEL SNYMAN
Depend upon it, Sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wo...
SAMUEL JOHNSON
The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.
PUBLILIUS SYRUS
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than ...
BIBLE
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than t...
BIBLE
He who defines duty for himself is his own master.
DICK CHEATHAM
If time is money and perhaps rightly said so, then with that count a person who does nothing for his...
ANUJ SOMANY
The inequalities are greater now than in '92. Some states have equalized per-pupil spending but ...
JONATHAN KOZOL
Resolve to find thyself; and to know that he who finds himself, loses his misery
MATTHEW ARNOLD
He who wants to warm himself in old age must build a fireplace in his youth
GERMAN PROVERB
Gavin made it tough on himself in the first inning. He never really seemed to get into a rhythm, eve...
GENE LAMONT
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence is he truly...
VIKTOR FRANKL
Only to the extent that someone is living out this self transcendence of human existence, is he trul...
VICTOR FRANKL
No, he got himself in a predicament where he felt threatened so he kind of took the offensive. He pa...
TERRY FRANCONA
The strongest amongst you, is not the one who defeats his opponents in a fight but he who can contro...
PROPHET MUHAMMED
His insomnia was so bad, he couldn't sleep during office hours.
ARTHUR BAER
Between what we schedule for him and he schedules for himself, it's amazing that he finds time to sl...
JOE HORRIGAN
It angered him that his sexuality was an issue at all. As far as he was concerned, who he decided to...
CHRISTINA WESTOVER
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those...
VLADIMIR NABOKOV

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