“Better to be poor in possessions rather than in thoughts and your way of reasoning.”

“Your teacher would like to see you do better in life than him, rather than limiting your reasoning according to his teachings.”

“People on all levels of income are better off than they were in 1979. The hon. Gentleman is saying that he would rather that the poor were poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. That way one will never create the wealth for better social services. as we have. What a policy. Yes, he would rather have the poor poorer, provided that the rich were less rich. That is the Liberal policy.”

“The reason he liked attending rich patients rather than poor ones was the he could exercise his active imagination in prescribing for their ailments.”

“Rather than being your thoughts and emotions, be the awareness behind them.”

“These reasonings are unconnected: "I am richer than you, therefore I am better"; "I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better." The connection is rather this: "I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;" "I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours." But you, after all, are neither property nor style.”

“The use of riches is better than their possession.”

“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”

“Men are reasoning rather than reasonable animals.”

“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”