Luxury

(249 votes)   Most of the luxuries and many of the so-called comforts of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

Henry David Thoreau
1817-1862, American Essayist, Poet, Naturalist

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(155 votes)   Give us the luxuries of life, and we will dispense with its necessaries.

John L. Motley
1814-1877, American Historian

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(146 votes)   When you're not used to comfort and good things to eat, you're intoxicated by them in no time. Truth's only too pleased to leave you. Very little is ever needed for Truth to let go of you. And after all, you're not really very keen to keep hold of it.

Louis-Ferdinand Celine
1894-1961, French Author

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(141 votes)   Luxury ruins republics; poverty, monarchies.

Charles De Montesquieu
1689-1755, French Jurist, Political Philosopher

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(137 votes)   Now we suffer the evils of a long peace; luxury more cruel than war broods over us and avenges a conquered world.

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal
c.55-c.130, Roman Satirical Poet

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(134 votes)   For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.

Albert Greenfield

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