The possession of gold has ruined fewer men than the lack of it. What noble enterprises have been checked and what fine souls have been blighted in the gloom of poverty the world will never know

The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks

For just as the first general precepts of the law of nature are self-evident to one in possession of natural reason, and have no need of promulgation, so also that of believing in God is primary and self-evident to one who has faith: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is

From the the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results.

There are competing studies on how much crime drops or doesn’t drop when there are strict rules on gun possession and sale. I don’t think there’s any question that New York City’s very tough laws have reduced violence.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.

Desire is a pain which seeks easement through possession.

In Spain, everything’s more tactical, more technical, with more possession. In Germany, it’s more physical; it’s about the runs you make, the counterattacks, and the German mentality is unique: whatever the score, you go to the 90th minute.

The Gulf is the proof of Carnegie’s warning about wealth: ‘There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else

Every day is lost in which we do not learn something useful. Man has no nobler or more valuable possession than time.

Speech is our second possession, after the soul-and perhaps we have no other possession in this world.

Go for the moon. If you don’t get it, you’ll still be heading for a star. Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of the creative effort.

For you who no longer possess it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion.

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future

The activity affected by causes like fainting, sleep, excessive joy, grief, possession by spirits, fear etc goes to the heart, its own place.

My intention was not as simple as crossing an island. It took the treasure under my possession.

They never deny sharing the treasures in their possession.

The Indians are so free about the riches under their possession.

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Insist on yourself; never imitate. Your own gift you can offer with the cumulative force of a whole life’s cultivation, but of the adopted talent of another, you have only an extemporaneous, half possession.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

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.

Man is an end in himself only by virtue of the divine in him – that which we designated at the outset as Reason, or, insofar as it has activity and power of self-determination, as Freedom.

For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.