Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural.

The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement.

Selfishness doesn't consist in a love to yourself, but in a big degree of such love.

But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end.

Greed has no boundaries

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way.

Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had.