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  Possession of material riches, without inner peace, is like dying of thirst while bathing in a lake.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

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• The really meaningful life is that whose meaning is in no way affected by the absence or presence of possessions.

  Shraga Silverstein

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• Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

  Democritus

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  Tags in Possession, Happiness
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  Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

  Thomas Aquinas

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  To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness these are the gifts which money cannot buy.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

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• Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

  Fredrik Bajer

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• The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

  Frederick Law Olmsted

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in World, Possession, Destroy

• The real duty of man is not to extend his power or multiply his wealth beyond his needs, but to enrich and enjoy his imperishable possession: his soul.

  Gilbert Highet

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• Great wealth took possession of the government. It was reflected in Mr. Harding’s selection of a cabinet.

  George William Norris

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  Tags in Great, Wealth, Possession, Government

• Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity.

  George Meredith

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• Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

  Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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• Clothes should look as if a woman was born into them. It is a form of possession, this belonging to one another.

  Geoffrey Beene

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• Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.

  Ella Maillart

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• Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

  Epicurus

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• Those in possession of absolute power can not only prophesy and make their prophecies come true, but they can also lie and make their lies come true.

  Eric Hoffer

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• When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

  Eric Hoffer

  Topics in Truth

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• It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not possession but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

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• The greatest possession is self-possession.

  Ethel Watts Mumford

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• The wavering mind is but a base possession.

  Euripides

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• One whose knowledge is confined to books and whose wealth is in the possession of others, can use neither his knowledge nor wealth when the need for them arises.

  Chanakya

  Topics in Knowledge

  Tags in Possession, Wealth, Book