Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1733) : Light purse, heavy heart.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“6493. A light Purse
Is a heavy Curse.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1745) : A light purse is a heavy Curse.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.”
Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910) Russian writer
Source: Path of Life (1909), p. 88
Act I, scene i.
Eastward Hoe (1605)
“We may fill our purses, but we pay a heavy price for it in the loss of picturesqueness and beauty.”
James Nasmyth (1808–1890) Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor
Source: James Nasmyth engineer, 1883, p. 153 (in 2010 edition)
“man's heart is a wonderful thing, especially when carried in the purse”
Karl Marx book Das Kapital
Vol. I, Ch. 9, pg. 252.
Das Kapital (Buch I) (1867)
“It's easy to be heavy; hard to be light.”
Gretchen Rubin (1966) American writer
Source: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
“A belief is like a guillotine, just as heavy, just as light.”
Franz Kafka book The Zürau Aphorisms
87
The Zürau Aphorisms (1917 - 1918)
Variant: Faith, like a guillotine. As heavy, as light.
