Money is the seed of money, ...

Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.
Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

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What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
A man speaks of what he knows, a woman of what pleases her: the one requires knowledge, the other taste.
To study men, we must look close by; to study man, we must learn to look afar; if we are to discover essential characteristics, we must first observe differences.
It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.
O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.