But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Oil has become the principal wealth in the hands of the great Yankee transnationals; through this energy source, they had an instrument that considerably expanded their political power in the world.

It is a man’s own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.

Fools admire, but men of sense approve.

There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge – that is everywhere.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

I’m too busy acting like I’m not Naive. I’ve seen it all, I was here first.

Don’t matter how much money you got, there’s only two kinds of people: there’s saved people and there’s lost people.

It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Man is the most intelligent of the animals – and the most silly.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

I can tell you, honest friend, what to believe: believe life; it teaches better that book or orator.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.

No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

Whoever doesn’t know it must learn and find by experience that ‚a quiet conscience makes one strong!‘

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Every time I plant a seed, He say kill it before it grow, he say kill it before they grow.

It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error.

It always seems to me so odd that when a man dies, he takes out with him all the knowledge that he has got in his lifetime whilst sowing his wild oats or winning successes. And he leaves his sons or younger brothers to go through all the work of learning it over again from their own experience.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it’s only money… they don’t know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.

Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

It is easy to dismiss the world as ‚irrelevant,‘ or consumed by ‚paranoid anti-Americanism,‘ but perhaps not wise.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion.

Do you know the only thing that gives me pleasure? It’s to see my dividends coming in.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

I have lived long enough both in years and in accomplishments.

If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones.

Money doesn’t talk, it swears.

There is no wealth but life.

The best advice comes from people who don’t give advice.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret… if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.

If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

I think the word rich is all relative.

We should take care not to make the intellect our goal; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.