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Mateo Alemán, fully Mateo Alemán y de Enero
That poverty which is not the daughter of the spirit is but the mother of shame and reproach; it is a disreputation that drowns all the other good parts that are in man; it is a disposition to all kind of evil; it is a man’s greatest foe.
Character | Daughter | Evil | Good | Man | Mother | Poverty | Shame | Spirit |
Thorstein Veblen, fully Thorstein Bunde Veblen, born Torsten Bunde Veblen
With the exception of the instinct of self-preservation, the propensity for emulation is probably the strongest and most alert and persistent of the economic motives proper.
Character | Instinct | Motives | Self | Self-preservation |
Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Admiration | Daughter | Ignorance | Wisdom |
Alphonse de Lamartine, fully Alphonse Marie Louis de Lamartine
He is no true man who ever treats women with anything but the profoundest respect. She is no true woman who cannot inspire and does not take care to enforce this. Any real rivalry of the sexes is the sheerest folly and most unnatural nonsense.
Care | Folly | Man | Nonsense | Respect | Rivalry | Wisdom | Woman |
Insatiable ambition, the thirst of raising their respective fortunes, not so much from real want as from the desire to surpass others, inspired all men with a vile propensity to injure one another, and with a secret jealousy, which is the more dangerous, as it puts on the mask of benevolence, to carry its point with greater security. In a word, there arose rivalry and competition on the one hand, and conflicting interests on the other, together with a secret desire on both of profiting at the expense of others. All these evils were the first effects of property, and the inseparable attendants of growing inequality.
Ambition | Benevolence | Competition | Desire | Inequality | Jealousy | Men | Property | Rivalry | Security | Wisdom |
Samuel Johnson, aka Doctor Johnson
Frugality may be termed the daughter of prudence, the sister of temperance, and the parent of liberty. Those that are extravagant will quickly become poor, and poverty will enforce dependence and invite corruption.
Corruption | Daughter | Dependence | Frugality | Liberty | Poverty | Prudence | Prudence | Will | Parent |
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
Doubt springs from the mind; faith is the daughter of the soul.
Leonardo da Vinci, fully Leonardo di ser Piero da Vinci
Truth was the only daughter of Time.
Daughter |