The rights of the individual are greatly prized in the developed world, but in many other regions they are considered a luxury reserved for the impossibly wealthy.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.
Wealthy individuals are known for spending their money wisely. This means living below their means by skipping the McMansion and impractical luxury vehicles.
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.
Individual and national rights to wealth rest on the basis of civil and international law, or at least of custom that has the force of law.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world.
Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.
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