A Quote by Herodotus

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

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Herodotus
Greek - Historian
484 BC - 425 BC

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Epictetus

So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation.

Christopher McCandless

There's not many firsts in my career, as I have been a part of many tournaments and fortunate enough to win many.

Maria Sharapova

I know many men at Fox, and most are good, decent people. Many are also good family men who have wives, mothers, sisters and daughters. Many are men of faith and moral conviction. These men have huge platforms.

S.E. Cupp

Mastership hath many shifts whereby it striveth to keep itself alive in the world. And now hear a marvel: whereas thou sayest these two times that out of one man ye may get but one man's work, in days to come one man shall do the work of a hundred men - yea, of a thousand or more: and this is the shift of mastership that shall make many masters and many rich men.

William Morris

I think there are many people on £70,000 who may well feel that their circumstances are such that they are not rich.

Emily Thornberry

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and there are so many ways for writing to be done.

William Saroyan

Your assumptions about the lives of others are in direct relation to your naïve pomposity. Many people you believe to be rich are not rich. Many people you think have it easy worked hard for what they got. Many people who seem to be gliding right along have suffered and are suffering. Many people who appear to you to be old and stupidly saddled down with kids and cars and houses were once every bit as hip and pompous as you.

Cheryl Strayed

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

Merle Shain

I believe that many people are unhappy because they have not learned to be grateful. Some carry the burden of bitterness and resentfulness for many years. Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn’t turn out the way they thought it would.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Many clever men like you have trusted to civilization. Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisation, what there is particularly immortal about yours?

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Solon

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

Leo Tolstoy

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

Anita Brookner

I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.

Lois Lowry

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

Nelson Mandela

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