
The shortest route to wealth is the contempt of wealth.
– Seneca
Related Quotes:
- Take your own route, not the route everyone is using or taking. Create your own way; there is always traffic on the common route. – Israelmore Ayivor
- Familiarity breeds contempt, for others at first, but then inwardly, contempt towards ourselves. – Oli Anderson
- Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of. – Augustine of Hippo
- The shortest route to courage is absolute ignorance. – Dan Simmons
- Where there is contempt/scornful rejection and slander, there wealth will not remain. – Dada Bhagwan
- Wealth in money, mineral resources are not the real wealth. The true wealth of nation is the character of her people. – Sunday Adelaja
- To make wealth wisdom, one needs to be wise. Wisdom may be able to wear the suit of wealth but wealth may not be able to wear the suit of wisdom – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
- Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool – Seneca
- It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth. – Seneca
- If you look on wealth as a thing to be valued your imaginary poverty will cause you torment. – Seneca
- For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them – Seneca
- I intend to destroy, destroy everything that exists in painting. I have utter contempt for painting. – Juan Miro
- One can show one’s contempt for the cruelty and stupidity of the world by making of one’s life a poem of incoherence and absurdity. – Alfred Jarry
- No one can attain moksha by pushing away others with contempt. So beware! – Dada Bhagwan
- I know about dance, like the creationist knows about science, and typically treat it with a similar contempt – Eilian J Richmond
- Men inflict injuries from hatred, jealousy or contempt, but the wise man masters all these passions by means of reason. – Epicurus
- I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification. – GK Chesterton
- I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt. – Jane Austen
- ..What our contempt often hurls from us,We wish it our again; the present pleasure,By revolution lowering,does becomeThe opposite of itself.. – William Shakespeare
- I’ve seen a look in dogs’ eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts. – John Steinbeck
- I have nothing but contempt. – Jay S Coreman
- If any man despises me, that is his problem. My only concern is not doing or saying anything deserving of contempt. – Marcus Aurelius
- I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State. – Sophocles
- The common theme here was contempt: a poisonous disregard for human life. For Vladimir Putin’s critics have an uncanny habit of turning up dead. – Luke Harding
- all men carry murder in their hearts, yet even so, the poisoner is beneath contempt. – George RR Martin
- The rape of a child is a violent act of contempt, not an expression of sexuality or affection. – Mike Lew
- I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration. – Orson Scott Card
- A straight line is not the shortest distance between two points. – Madeleine LEngle
- Even the shortest love story reminds me of how much I love you. – Terry a ONeal
- The end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest. – Augustine of Hippo
- The strategist chooses the shortest path while the leader chooses the path through which he learns something new. – Bogdan Vaida
- Acceptance of what is. That is the shortest path to peace with yourself. – Robin Hobb
- People don’t care about being duped as long as they’re happy, which is the shortest form of happiness; hence ‘self-duprication’ becomes a habit. – Criss Jami
- Okay,’ she said. And that was that. The shortest fight we’d ever had. – Heather Hammonds
- The shortest and the hardest journey to make is the inner one. – Omisona Fasina
- The shortest interval between two points is the awareness that they are not two. – Eric Michael Leventhal
- A story is the shortest distance between being a stranger and being a friend. – Paul Smith
- I’m not sure who invented dodgeball, but I can almost guarantee you that it wasn’t the shortest kid in the class. – John Bingham
- May your first day in hell last ten thousand years, and may it be the shortest. – Stephen King
- Even the longest beautiful path is perceived as very short and even the shortest ugly path is perceived as very long! Beauty changes the perceptions! – Mehmet Murat ildan
