A quotation from Horace

                                        But don’t all things,
virtue, a good name, honor, all that’s human and divine,
obey money, lovely money?
 
                                        [Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 2, # 3, “Si raro scribes,” l. 94ff (2.3.94-96) (30 BC) [tr. Fuchs (1977)]

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A quotation from C. C. Colton

Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who, when alive, would part with nothing.

Charles Caleb "C. C." Colton (1780-1832) English cleric, writer, aphorist
Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Vol. 1, § 314 (1820)

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A quotation from Horace

                You sleep, gaping,
On your bags of gold, adore them like hallowed
Relics not meant to be touched, stare as at gorgeous
Canvases. Money is meant to be spent, it buys pleasure:
Did you know that? Bread, vegetables, wine, you can
Buy almost everything it’s hard to live without.
 
            [Congestis undique saccis
indormis inhians et tamquam parcere sacris
cogeris aut pictis tamquam gaudere tabellis.
Nescis, quo valeat nummus, quem praebeat usum?
Panis ematur, holus, vini sextarius, adde
quis humana sibi doleat natura negatis.]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Mæcenas,” l. 70ff (1.1.70-75) (35 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]

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A quotation from Horace

Like the Athenian miser, who was wont
To meet men’s curses with a hero’s front:
“Folks hiss me,” said he, “but myself I clap
When I tell o’er my treasures on my lap.”
 
   [Ut quidam memoratur Athenis
sordidus ac dives, populi contemnere voces
sic solitus: ‘populus me sibilat, at mihi plaudo
ipse domi, simul ac nummos contemplor in arca.’]

Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Satires [Saturae, Sermones], Book 1, # 1, “Qui fit, Maecenas,” l. 64ff (1.1.64-67) (35 BC) [tr. Conington (1874)]

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A quotation from Franklin

Wish a miser long life, and you wish him no good.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) American statesman, scientist, philosopher, aphorist
Poor Richard (1738 ed.)

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A quotation from Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Give of thy gold, though small thy portion be.
   Gold rusts and shrivels in the hand that keeps it.
It grows in one that opens wide and free.
   Who sows his harvest is the one who reaps it.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1850-1919) American author and poet.
“Give,” st. 3, New Thought Pastels (1906)

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A quotation from Hugo, Victor:

«
This brother, who is little remembered, was a complacent miser who, being a priest, felt obliged to give alms to the poor he encountered, though he never gave them anything but worthless Revolutionary coins or demonetized sous, thereby contriving to go to hell by following the path to paradise.
»

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A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:

«
When will the Miser’s Chest be full enough?
When will he cease his Bags to cram and stuff?
All Day he labours and all Night contrives,
Providing as if he’d an hundred Lives.
While endless Care cuts short the common Span:
So have I seen with Dropsy swoln, a Man,
Drink and drink more, and still unsatis…
»

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https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/69823/

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A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:

«
If he is poor who is full of Desires, nothing can equal the Poverty of the Ambitious and the Covetous.
 
[S’il est vrai que l’on soit pauvre par toutes les choses que l’on désire, l’ambitieux et l’avare languissent dans une extrême pauvreté.]
»

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A quotation from Franklin, Benjamin:

«
He does not possess Wealth, it possesses him.
»

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https://wist.info/franklin-benjamin/67925/

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A quotation from Dante Alighieri:

«
To what extremes, O cursèd lust for gold
will you not drive man’s appetite?
 
[Per che non reggi tu, o sacra fame
de l’oro, l’appetito de’ mortali?]
»

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https://wist.info/dante-alighieri-poet/67420/

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A quotation from Chesterton, Gilbert Keith:

«
But among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.
»

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https://wist.info/chesterton-gilbert-keith/15165/

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Writing some instructions and my go-to names are Sandy Beaches and Rusty Fitting.

What else ya got?
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Le #gourou des #banques #BlackRock en phase de #miser sur #Bitcoin $BTC ? La recrue qui pourrait tout changer https://journalducoin.com/actualites/gourou-banques-blackrock-phase-miser-bitcoin-reccrue-tout-changer/

Pro #sustainability / #anticapitalist / #miser tip of the day: your Grandad’s safety razor used blades that cost 5p (6c USD / EUR) each. Rather than £2.50 / €3 / $3.

They don’t clog as you can take them out and rinse it.

This is a great example of how #innovation can lead to worse and more expensive products.