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Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

Wealth and poverty the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Plato

When you are not physically starving, you have the luxury to realize psychic and emotional starvation.

Aaron Ostrom

Now, at a certain time, in pleasant mood, He tried the luxury of doing good.

George Crabbe

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth ... The trite subjects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible.

Albert Einstein 1879

We [Americans] are the lavishest and showiest and most luxury-loving people on the earth; and at our masthead we fly one true and honest symbol, the gaudiest flag the world has ever seen.

Mark Twain

[History is a] costly and superfluous luxury of the understanding.

Nietzsche

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of a certain income can indulge.

George William Curtis

Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things

Benjamin Franklin

Advertising is the genie which is transforming America into a place of comfort, luxury and ease for millions.

William Allen White

It is impossible to overdo luxury

French Proverb

Blesses his stars, and thinks it luxury.

Joseph Addison

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree.

Oliver Goldsmith

Luxury is an enticing pleasure, a bastard mirth, which hath honey in her mouth, gall in her heart, and a sting in her tail.

Francis Quarles

The ultimate of being successful is the luxury of giving yourself the time to do what you want to do.

Leontyne Price

We see the pernicious effects of luxury in the ancient Romans, who immediately found themselves poor as soon as this vice got footing among them.

Joseph Addison

Luxury makes a man so soft that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.

Sir George Mackenzie

War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford.

Hannah Arendt

Pessimism is a LUXURY that a Jew can never allow himself

Golda Meir

Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself.

Golda Meir

I grew up on the beach. It was such a luxury to wake up to the sun and the ocean

Gemma Ward

The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend

Marcus Tullius Cicero

"But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need - if only we had eyes to see." "I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving." "The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders." "Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."

Edward Abbey

As to the rout that is made about people who are ruined by extravagance, it is no matter to the nation that some individuals suffer. When so much general productive exertion is the consequence of luxury, the nation does not care though there are debtors; nay, they would not care though their creditors were there too.

Samuel Johnson

The goal of every culture is to decay through over-civilization; the factors of decadence, -- luxury, skepticism, weariness and superstition, -- are constant. The civilization of one epoch becomes the manure of the next.

Cyril Connolly

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