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Morality is a private and costly luxury
Morality is a private and costly luxury
Morality is a private and costly luxury
Morality is a private and costly luxury
Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world
No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies
Sell not your liberty to gratify your luxury
Sofas 'twas half a sin to sit upon, So costly were they; carpets, every stitch Of workmanship so rare, they make you wish You could glide o'er them like a golden fish.
Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt: It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Then there is that glorious Epicurean paradox, uttered by my friend, the Historian in one of his flashing moments: Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries
Fell luxury! more perilous to youth Than storms or quicksands, poverty of chains.
Luxury and dissipation, soft and gentle as their approaches are, and silently as they throw their silken chains about the heart, enslave it more than the most active and turbulent vices.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessities.
On his weary couch Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch, Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam That through his lattice peeped derisively.
The media is constantly redefining what luxury is. Luxury can be a dirty sock if dressed up in the right way.
What think you, if he were conveyed to bed, Wrapped in sweet clothes, rings put upon his fingers, A most delicious banquet by his bed, And brave attendants near him when he wakes, Would not the beggar then forget himself?
Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.
Falsely luxurious, will not man awake?
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.
Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.
Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.
Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.
Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.
Luxury is the first, second and third cause of the ruin of republics. It is the vampire which soothes us into a fatal slumber while it sucks the lifeblood of our veins.
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