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Many possessions, if they do not make a man better, are at least expected to make his children happier; and this pathetic hope is behind many exertions.

— George Santayana

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A man's got to work for more than himself and his kids to feel right.

— John Dos Passos

The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

— Epictetus

Most men have always wanted as much as they could get; and possession has always blunted the fine edge of their altruism.

— Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould

The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.

— Bob Marley

Happiness is not always through success. Equally, the constant pursuit of success is sure unhappiness. But we have to find the balance. My own thoughts are that parenting is very personal. And we all feel enormous insecurity about parenting. What are they going to think of us 20 years down the line?

— Amy Chua

You don't seem to realize that a poor person who is unhappy is in a better position than a rich person who is unhappy. Because the poor person has hope. He thinks money would help.

— Jean Kerr

✗Opposing Perspectives

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

— Benjamin Franklin

Every man judges his own happiness and satisfaction with life in terms of his possession or lack of possession of those things that he considers worthwhile and valuable.

— Meir Kahane