"It is for the superfluous things of life that men sweat."

Marcus Annaeus Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."

Bill Bryson, American Writer

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"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."

Felix Adler, German Educator

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"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."

Wayne Gerard Trotman, British Author

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Eckhart Tolle, German Author

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"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."

Aldous Huxley, English Novelist

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Janvier Chouteu-Chando, Cameroonian Author

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"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

Anita Loos, American Writer

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"Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold."

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"You buy furniture. You tell yourself, this is the last sofa I will ever need in my life. Buy the sofa, then for a couple years you're satisfied that no matter what goes wrong, at least you've got your sofa issue handled. Then the right set of dishes. Then the perfect bed. The drapes. The rug. Then you're trapped in your lovely nest, and the things you used to own, now they own you."

Chuck Palahniuk, American Novelist

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"It is a slightly arresting notion that if you were to pick yourself apart with tweezers, one atom at a time, you would produce a mound of fine atomic dust, none of which had ever been alive but all of which had once been you."

"We measure our enjoyments by the sum expended."

"Instead of loving people and using money, people often love money and use people."

"Materialism is the only form of distraction from true bliss."

"What keeps the so-called consumer society going is the fact that trying to find yourself through things doesn't work. The ego satisfaction is short-lived and so you keep looking for more and keep buying and consuming."

"He had allowed the advertisers to multiply his wants; he had learned to equate happiness with possessions, and prosperity with money to spend in a shop."

"Isn't materialism the cause of much that is evil in the land of mortal souls?"

"I really think that American gentlemen are the best after all, because kissing your hand may make you feel very good but a diamond and a sapphire bracelet lasts forever."

"Man with his new powers became rich like Midas but all that he touched had gone dead and cold."

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"Our plans miscarry because they have no aim. When a man does not know what harbor he is making for no wind is the right wind."

"Not he who has little but he who wishes more is poor."

"No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself."

"For many men the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles it only changes them."

"One should count each day a separate life."

"There is nothing in the world so much admired as a man who knows how to bear unhappiness with courage."