“Don't gain the world and lose your soul
Wisdom is better than silver and gold.”
Zion Train
Uprising (1979)
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Bible References
“You never win the silver. You only lose the gold.”
From interview with Malavika Sangghvi
“What profit it a man if he gain the whole world but in this enterprise lose his soul?”
Source: The Man in the High Castle
“Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold, that is, in large quantities.”
The Innocence of Father Brown (1911) The Queer Feet
The Father Brown Mystery Series (1910 - 1927)
“And silver, though few people knew it, was a rarer metal than gold.”
Source: The Course of True Love [and First Dates]
Livre d'architecture as quoted by Edward Fenton, "Messer Philibert Delorme" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin Vol. 13, No. 4, Dec., 1954
“Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.”
Œdipus, Frag. 546
Source: “Don’t allow the dreams God put into your hearts to be stolen,” Argentinean bishop says https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/10471/dont-allow-the-dreams-god-put-into-your-hearts-to-be-stolen-argentinean-bishop-says (24 September 2007)