“Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 88
“Can we then hold the poverty-in-wealth of the money-grubbing usurers to be of any account? They may seem to be kings with purses full of gold, but they never even in their dreams have had a glimpse of the wealth that has eyes to see.”
— Philo
213-215.
On the Virtues
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