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Every man now worships gold, all other reverence being done away.


Sextus Propertius

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SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Tell me who is able to keep his bed chaste, or which goddess is able to live with one god alone?
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Among absent lovers, ardor always fares better.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS In great things it is enough even to have willed.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Absence makes the heart grow fonder.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Afflicted by love's madness all are blind.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS No rival will steal away my sure love; that glory will be my gray hair.
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SEXTUS PROPERTIUS Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent. [Lat., Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.]
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS I am climbing a difficult road; but the glory gives me strength.
SEXTUS PROPERTIUS In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize t...
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE Our fathers worshiped the golden calf. The worst you can say of an American now is, he worships the ...
ROBERT GREEN INGERSOLL Or, as Sextus, the ancient Pythagorian philosopher, said, “The wise man is always similar to himse...
ELIZABETH GILBERT Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man.
PARACELSUS If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life.
ALBERT SCHWEITZER The man who worships mere wealth is a snob
ANTHONY TROLLOPE Man being reasonable must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication; Glory, the grape, love, g...
LORD BYRON India has 2,000,000 gods and worships them all. In religion, all other countries are paupers; India ...
MARK TWAIN A self-made man? Yes, and one who worships his creator.
WILLIAM COWPER If you are worshipping false gods—such as football, baseball, gold, tennis, or money or technology...
HARTMAN RECTOR, JR. Respect the masterpiece. It is true reverence to man. There is no quality so great, none so much nee...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Every funeral should be conducted with reverence.
PAT QUINN Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is w...
OSCAR WILDE I am one step away from being rich, all I need now is money.
ANONYMOUS I'm a God-fearing man who worships with my heart and with my life.
WILLIE STARGELL Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not g...
LEO NIKOLAEVICH TOLSTOY Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not ...
LEO TOLSTOY If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know, some other man might not have done, I am ...
JOSIAH ROYCE The Bible does not say money is the root of all evil; it says the love of money is the root of all k...
CRISS JAMI Kill reverence, and you have killed the hero in a man
EDWARD RAND Above all things, reverence yourself.
PYTHAGORAS Reverence: the spiritual attitude of a man to a god and a dog to a man.
AMBROSE BIERCE Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. LAWRENCE Tragedy is like strong acid -- it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D.H. LAWRENCE All I've ever really done is page 3 in The Sun, and not every man reads that.
KATIE PRICE Gold is tested by fire, man by gold
CHINESE PROVERBS The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an ax...
SOURCE UNKNOWN Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
WOODROW WILSON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.
JIM BISHOP Christendom has done away with Christianity without being quite aware of it
SOREN KIERKEGAARD A man of God who falls in love with a woman who worships idols will turn him to a zombie.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE Sooner or later, man has always had to decide whether he worships his own power or the power of God.
ARNOLD J. TOYNBEE Every man for himself and the Devil for all.
VIKRANT PARSAI Every man has inside himself a parasitic being who is acting not at all to his advantage.
WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead.
ROBERT STAUGHTON LYND Every man is the builder of a temple, called his body, to the god he worships, after a style purely ...
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN A man with a soul is not like every other man.
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JOHN WATERS There is categorically no consumer harm being done right now.
HENRY HARTEVELDT The "masters" have been done away with; the morality of the vulgar man has triumphed.
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N.K. JEMISIN Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things a...
JOHN RUSKIN For the sin of the idolater is not that he worships stone, but that he worships one stone over other...
R. SCOTT BAKKER We have done better owning gold than shares.
JAY TAYLOR No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
G. K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
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DIETER KIRSCH It was really one man with one vision - B.J. - and not many people believed him, but now we have don...
DIETER KIRSCH Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
HENRY BOLINGBROKE No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver
KAHLIL GIBRAN All that glisters is not gold.Often you have heard that told:Many a man his life hath soldBut my out...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE As gold is tested in four ways by rubbing, cutting, heating and beating -- so a man should be tested...
CHANAKYA Now if any man build upon this foundation gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, stubble; Ever...
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SCAACHI KOUL The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not a...
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD After three years away winning gold feels great honestly,
TOMMY CLOWERS I just remember being stunned. We all looked at each other and thought, 'What good are we to this ma...
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MARY O'MALLEY In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions and every other man is entitled not...
G. NORMAN COLLIE I pleaded your cause, Sextus, having agreed to do so for two thousand sesterces. How is it that yo...
MARCUS VALERIUS MARTIAL Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The o...
SAINT IGNATIUS Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
ROBERT INGERSOLL Every man of genius is considerably helped by being dead
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VINCENT FRANK Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so;
And, being done, thus Wall away doth go.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the gene...
AMANDA TAPPING The law itself follows gold.
PROPERTIUS Give the historians something to write about.
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PROPERTIUS Be yourself. The world worships the original.
INGRID BERGMAN The blind meet more 'Angels' than every other being.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
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JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Behind every able man, there are always other able men.
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