A Quote by Jean de la Bruyere
As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.
It is not the fact that a man has riches which keeps him from the kingdom of heaven, but the fact that riches have him.
There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.
As a man falls out of favour and his wealth declines, we discover for the first time the ridiculous aspects of his character, which were always there but which wealth and favour had concealed.
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The laboring man and the trade-unionist, if I understand him, asks only equality before the law. Class legislation and unequal privilege, though expressly in his favor, will in the end work no benefit to him or to society.
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Favor exalts a man above his equals, but his dismissal from that favor places him below them.
Wishing will not bring riches. But desiring riches with a state of mind that becomes an obsession, then planning definite ways and means to acquire riches, and backing those plans with persistence which does not recognize failure, will bring riches.
There sometimes wants only a stroke of fortune to discover numberless latent good or bad qualities, which would otherwise have been eternally concealed.
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