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“[I]t is not by being richer or more powerful that a man becomes better; one is a matter of fortune, the other of virtue. Nor should she deem herself other than venal who weds a rich man rather than a poor, and desires more things in her husband than himself. Assuredly, whomsoever this concupiscence leads into marriage deserves payment rather than affection.”
― Héloïse, The Letters of Abélard and Héloïse

tags: affection, concupiscence, dignity, fortune, greed, honesty, honor, integrity, love, marriage, married-life, materialism, matrimony, payment, possessions, poverty, power, prostitution, riches, shame, sin, venality, vice, virtue, wedlock, wives, women

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“Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

tags: ego, materialism, vanity

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“Ignore all hatred and criticism. Live for what you create, and die protecting it.”
― Lady Gaga

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“A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross.”
― Jane Austen, Emma

tags: materialism

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“The shame and the downfall of a modern materialistic society is her inability to treasure, care for, admire, adore, cherish, value, revere, respect, uphold, uplift, protect, shield, defend, safeguard, treasure and love her children. I praise all the cultures of this world that naturally harbor and actively manifest these instincts. If a nation or if a population of people fails to recognize the excellent value and distinction of the lives of her children and is defective enough to have lost the capability of expressing and acting upon these instincts then there is nothing that can save that nation or those people. The prosperity of a people is not measured in banks, financial markets, economy and the death of its humanity is evident not through the loss of life but in the loss of love for its children.”
― C. JoyBell C.