Quote by Arthur Schopenhauer
Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we beco

Wealth is like sea-water; the more we drink, the thirstier we become; and the same is true of fame. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Age
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They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice… that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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Death
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Big mouthfuls often choke. – Italian Proverb

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So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, I think I must take up with avarice. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Greed

For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still. – John Maynard Keynes

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Greed

Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance. – Charles Caleb Colton

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