Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist.

La prospérité porte avec elle une ivresse à laquelle les hommes inférieurs ne résistent jamais.

Honoré de Balzac

La Comédie humaine

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Corrosive effects of wealth Downsides of wealth Wealth

Author

Honoré de Balzac

Source

César Birotteau La Comédie humaine

Medium

Novel

Language

French

Time

1837 1830s 19th century

Occupation

Novelist Writer

From

France Europe

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Original Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Paris: Charles-Béchet, 1837.

Current Citation

De Balzac, Honoré. César Birotteau. Penguin Classics, 1994.

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The time will come when this universe and nature herself will be no more. And just as of very great human kingdoms and empires and of their marvelous exploits, which were so very famous in other ages, there remains no sign of fame whatsoever, so too of the entire world, and of the infinite vicissitudes and calamities of all created things, no single trace will remain, but a naked silence and a most profound quiet will fill the immensity of space. Thus, this stupendous and frightening mystery of universal existence, before it can be declared or understood, will vanish and be lost.

Giacomo Leopardi

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Death of the universe The universe

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Giacomo Leopardi
Source
The Song of the Wild Rooster Operette Morali
Language
Italian
Time
1835 1830s 19th century
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Original Citation

Leopardi, Giacomo. "Cantico del gallo silvestre [Song of the Wild Rooster]." Operette morali [Small Moral Works]. Naples: Presso Saverio Starita, 1835.

Current Citation

Leopardi, Giacomo. "Song of the Great Wild Rooster." Operette Morali: Essays and Dialogues. University of California Press, 1983.

Another quote about Wealth

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Aristotle

Rhetoric

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Corrosive effects of wealth Downsides of wealth Wealth Character Fools

Author

Aristotle
Source
Rhetoric
Genre
Philosophical literature
Language
Greek
Time
322 BC 320s BC 4th century BC
Era
Classical antiquity
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Original Citation

Aristotle. Rhetoric. 322 BC, bk. 2, pt. 16, sect. 3.

Current Citation

Aristotle. The Art of Rhetoric, translated by Robin Waterfield. Oxford University Press, 2018, bk. 2, pt. 16, sect. 3.

Another quote originally in French

Hope raises no dust.

Paul Eluard

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Hope

Author

Paul Eluard
Medium
Poem
Language
French
Time
1946 1940s 20th century
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Citation

Eluard, Paul. "Ailleurs, Ici Partout." Poesie ininterrompue. Paris: Gallimard, 1946.