Money & Business Sayings
41 sayings found from the Early Modern era from 41 authors
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Eating is a serious business. You must eat with delight and not as if you were doing penance.
It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.
It is not wealth or ancestry, but rather the spirit of the age, which has raised me to the highest pinnacle of fame.
My 'good fortune' consisted in having received fifty blows when I was condemned to receive a hundred.
I have often thought, that if I were to choose a companion for life, it should be one who had as little money as myself.
It is not the business of philosophy to account for the truth of things by hypotheses, but to deduce them from phenomena.
I have often been poor, but I have always been rich in spirit.
The wise man will want to be rich only in order to be able to help himself and his friends.
He that has a Trade, has an Office of Profit and Pleasure.
The business of a philosopher is to give an account of things as they are.
The only security a free people can have for the faithful observance of their constitution and laws, is to be found in a right of taxation.
Fortune has taken from me my mother and my father, and given me in their stead a kingdom.
I came to Russia a poor princess, but I will make her rich.
My nose was cut off in a duel with Manderup Parsbjerg, so I had a prosthetic made of gold and silver.
I have been so ill that I have not been able to attend to any business.
I have imposed on my subjects taxes that are too heavy.
A man who is too sensitive to the world and too much given to reflection will find it hard to endure the slings and arrows of misfortune.
Our business here is not to know all things, but those which concern our conduct.
The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor.
Happiness is a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.