A Quote by Juvenal

The love of pelf increases with the pelf. [Lat., Crescit amor nummi quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.]

Juvenal

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Juvenal
Roman - Poet
60 - 130

Divine is Love and scorneth worldly pelf, And can be bought with nothing but with self.

Walter Raleigh

Whate'er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbor with himself.

Alexander Pope

Nunc scio quit sit amor." Lat., "Now I know what love is.

Virgil

Henceforth ye may thieve with better knowledge whence lucre should be won, and learn that it is not well to love gain from every source. For thou wilt find that ill-gotten pelf brings more men to ruin than to weal.

Sophocles

The trusts and combinations - the communism of pelf - whose machinations have prevented us from reaching the success we deserved, should not be forgotten nor forgiven.

Grover Cleveland

Endless money forms the sinews of war. [Lat., Nervi belli pecunia infinita.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Ah me! love can not be cured by herbs. [Lat., Hei mihi! quod nullis amor est medicabilis herbis.]

Ovid

Keynes eliminated economic theory's ancient role as spoilsport for inflationist and statist schemes, leading a new generation of economists on to academic power and to political pelf and privilege.

Murray Rothbard

All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.]

Horace

Money lost is bewailed with unfeigned tears. [Lat., Ploratur lacrimis amissa pecunia veris.]

Juvenal

Envy is of all others the most ungratifying and disconsolate passion. There is power for ambition, pleasure for luxury, and pelf even for covetousness; but envy gets no reward but vexation.

Jeremy Collier

Great God, I ask thee for no meaner pelf Than that I may not disappoint myself, That in my action I may soar as high As I can now discern with this clear eye.

Henry David Thoreau

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth. [Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.]

Horace

Other passions have objects to flatter them, and seem to content and satisfy them for a while; there is power in ambition, pleasure in luxury, and pelf in covetousness; but envy can gain nothing but vexation.

Michel de Montaigne

The very life which we enjoy is short. [Lat., Vita ipsa qua fruimur brevis est.]

Sallust

But here in the struggle for fame and pelf I want to be able to like myself. I don't want to look at myself and know That I'm bluster and buff and empty show.

Edgar Guest

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