He who desires is always poor.


Claudianus

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The devil is too poor!_ he isn't rich enough to satisfy our desires.
KIMTO OCHE EMMANUEL
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires mo...
JEREMY TAYLOR
A poor person is one who always thinks that he is being judged by whatever he does.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Only he who desires is amiable and not he who is satiated.
THOMAS MANN
He is a king who fears nothing, he is a king who desires nothing!
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.
DAVID MITCHELL
He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who hesitates is poor.
MEL BROOKS
The person who desires to be rich alone is unwise,for he can go broke tomorrow,but the one who desir...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
Much will always wanting be To him who much desires.
MME. A.M. BIGOT DE CORNUEL
In order to get where God desires to take you, you have to become who He is desires to make you.
MAURICE W. LINDSAY
The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who c...
ORISON SWETT MARDEN
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who knows not when he has enough, is poor.
VIKRANT PARSAI
He is poor who doesn’t have enough, he is poorer who cannot get enough.
JEAN GUEHENNO
He who desires but does not act, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He is not poor who has a competency.
UNKNOWN
Energy is an eternal delight, and he who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
WILLIAM BLAKE
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
LAO TZU
The poor man is not he who is without a cent, but he who is without a dream
HARRY KEMP
Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will alwa...
NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI
Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER)
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON
He who reins within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king
JOHN MILTON
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always fat insid...
CHER
The man who desires to become rich, desires to become rich quickly and quickly fail if he wants to b...
VIKRANT PARSAI
He who is everybody’s friend is either very poor or very rich.
VIKRANT PARSAI
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
ABU BAKR
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON
He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
JOHN MILTON
A poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy because the p...
JEAN KERR
Always remember:
It is #Rabbji / God alone who really is Rich, and others...all are poor.
SADA MALHOTRA
A poor person isn't he who has little, but he who needs a lot.
GERMAN PROVERB
He who desires to become rich, wishes to become so as quickly as possible.
UNKNOWN
The entrepreneur who is always on the side of the poor will make money without limit.
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
I'm scared to death of being poor. It's like a fat girl who loses 500 pounds but is always f...
CHER
He who carries the word “no” with him will never be poor even when he is old.
VIKRANT PARSAI
God’s justice is higher than merely punishing someone who has committed an injustice—He desires ...
JESSICA NICHOLAS
He whose hands are clean does not like to hold an office; he who desires nothing cares not for bodil...
CHANAKYA
He who knows how to be poor knows everything.
JULES MICHELET
Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter.
RING LARDNER
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pe...
JEAN KERR
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich pers...
JEAN KERR
I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or...
OSCAR WILDE
He who leaves a good name does not die poor.
VIKRANT PARSAI
You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich ...
JEAN KERR
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
LAURENCE J. PETER
The man who says he is willing to meet you halfway is usually a poor judge of distance.
DR. LAURENCE J. PETER
I was always a self-proclaimed poor slider.
WILLIE STARGELL
He was very concerned about helping students who were poor. He gave scholarships. He wanted to help ...
DOROTHY LORD
A poor person is one who doesn’t buy anything until he sees someone else buying it first.
VIKRANT PARSAI
He wanted to retire, but he was always thinking of financial obligations. He always wanted my niece ...
GEETHA THOMAS
The good which every man, who follows after virtue, desires for himself he will also desire for othe...
BARUCH SPINOZA
The poor man is poor because he will not heed instruction.
FRED C. WHITE
Who, being loved, is poor?
OSCAR WILDE
There's poverty in wealth. If a man is wealthy without good health, is he not poor? If a man is weal...
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON
Man is insatiable for power; he is infantile in his desires and, always discontented with what he ha...
JOSEPH DE MAISTRE
A person who is physically poor but mentally rich is far greater than a person who is mentally poor ...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN)
He who is greedy is always in want.
HORACE
Oh, poor human! You have so many dreams, but so short period of time! You are living in the ocean of...
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN
He is always right who suspects that he makes mistakes
SPANISH PROVERB
Who ever mocks the poor insults his maker; and he that is glad at calamities shall not go unpunished...
BIBLE
It is the consumers who make poor people rich and rich people poor.
LUDWIG VON MISES
Pity the man who has a character to support --it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poor i...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
Pity the man who has a character to support -- it is worse than a large family -- he is silent poo...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do, because I notice it always coinc...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coinci...
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
An executive is a person who always decides; sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
JOHN H. PATTERSON
An executive is a person who always decides sometimes he decides correctly, but he always decides.
JOHN H. PATTERSON
Gravity was always there but only Newton noticed, love is always there it just need your Newton, yes...
MIRTUNJAY UPADHYAY
He who desires to worship God must harbor no childish illusions about the matter but bravely renounc...
MIKHAIL BAKUNIN
Pride sullies the noblest character.
CLAUDIANUS
Virtue is indeed its own reward.
CLAUDIANUS
No one can have all he desires.
UNKNOWN
It is difficult to esteem a man as he desires to be esteemed
VAUVENARGUES MARQUIS DE
He who steals once is always a thief
SPANISH PROVERB
There is not a woman born who desires to eat the bread of dependence.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Who reigns within himself, and rules Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.
THOMAS MIDDLETON
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
VEGETIUS
Let him who desires peace prepare for war.
FLAVIUS VEGETIUS RENATUS
Jesus is the politics of the new age; He is about the establishment of a kingdom; He is the one who ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS
A friend always loves, but he who loves is not always a friend.
SIR WALTER SCOTT
Woman is always fickle - foolish is he who trusts her.
FRANCIS I
Everything is in the Hands of our Lord and Master; He Himself is the Doer of deeds. I am a sacrifice...
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
He begins to die, that quits his desires.
GEORGE HERBERT
Fortune comes to people who are rich and it goes out from people who are poor, because positive thin...
NISHI DE SILVA
WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT:
Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. ...
EDWARD ABBEY
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
WILLIAM BLAKE
Remember your Lord and Master, who is easily obtained, and all desires shall be fulfilled.
SRI GURU GRANTH SAHIB
Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condi...
PLATO
I always thought a person’s Gift reflected something about that person and all I can think is that...
SALLY GREEN
Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter To him tha...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
He will be someone who is defined, first and always, by what he is missing.
HANYA YANAGIHARA
It is always better to help the needy than the poor.
VIKRANT PARSAI
It is a safe thing to trust Him to fulfill the desires which He creates
AMY CARMICHAEL
Watching on one’s doing and what he should do for his desires is an Introspection.
JYOTSNAJHA
Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires
JEAN DE LA FONTAINE
Limited in his nature, infinite in his desires. Man is a fallen god who remembers heaven.
ALPHONSE DE LAMARTINE
I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest vic...
ARISTOTLE

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