Downsides of wealth

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The Holy Bible: The King James Version. 1611. (Matthew 19:24).

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

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

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Socrates. Quoted in Πολιτεία [Republic], written by Plato. c. 375 BCE.

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Socrates. Quoted in Republic, written by Plato, translated by Desmond Lee. Penguin Classics, 2007.

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Ovid. Metamorphōsēs [Metamorphoses]. c. 8 CE, bk. 3, l. 466.

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Ovid. Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2004, bk. 3, l. 466.

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Franklin, Benjamin [published as Richard Saunders]. Poor Richard's Almanack. Philadelphia, 1744.

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Franklin, Benjamin. "Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1744." Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings, edited by J. A. Leo Lemay. Library of America, 2005.

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Bacon, Francis. The Advancement of Learning. London: Oxford: Rob Youn and Ed Forrest, 1605, bk. 6, ch. 3, no. 6.

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Bacon, Francis. "The Advancement of Learning." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 6, ch. 3, no. 6.

Why should man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?

Francis Bacon

The Remains

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Bacon, Francis. "On Death." The Remains. London, 1648.

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Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Houghton Mifflin, 1958, ch. 1, sect. 1.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Directed by John Huston, Warner Bros.-First National, 1948.

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Bacon, Francis. "Of Adversity." Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall. London: John Haviland, 1625.

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Bacon, Francis. "Essays, or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625): Of Adversity." Francis Bacon: The Major Works, edited by Brian Vickers. Oxford University Press, 2008.

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Vidal, Gore. "H. Hughes." The New York Review of Books, 20 Apr. 1972.

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Drake, Judith [published as written by a lady]. An Essay in Defence of the Female Sex. London: A. Roper and E. Wilkinson, 1696.

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Chesterton, G.K. "A Miscellany of Men." The Wit, Whimsy and Wisdom of G.K. Chesterton. Vol. 6, Coachwhip Publications, 2009. Originally published by Methuen, 1912 .

The victor belongs to the spoils.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Metropolitan Magazine

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. "The Beautiful and Damned." Metropolitan Magazine, Sept. 1921 - March 1922.

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Fitzgerald, F. Scott. The Beautiful and the Damned. Cambridge University Press, 2014, bk. 2, ch. 1.

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Seneca the Younger. Ad Polybium De Consolatione [Of Consolation, To Polybius]. c. 44 AD, ch. 6, sect. 5.

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Citizen Kane. Directed by Orson Welles. RKO Radio Pictures/Mercury Productions, 1941.

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Shakespeare, William. The Merchant of Venice. c. 1598, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Merchant of Venice." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 1, sc. 2.

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

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

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

The Eagle's Nest

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Ruskin, John. Lecture given at the University of Oxford. 22 Feb. 1872, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha: Eine Indische Dichtung [Siddhartha: An Indian Poetry]. S. Fischer Verlag, 1922.

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Hesse, Hermann. Siddhartha, translated by Joachim Neugroschel. Penguin Classics, 2002.