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Opulence is the law of the universe, an abundant supply for every need if nothing is put in the way of its coming. -- Ralph Waldo Trine
Defense is superior to opulence. -- Adam Smith
Opulence and fame will shorten your life, ask for long life, and you'll enjoy the former in small quantities, for it is a substitute. -- Michael Bassey Johnson
If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes. -- David Ricardo
Little else is requisite to carry a state to the highest degree of opulence from the lowest barbarism but peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice: all the rest being brought about by the natural course of things. -- Adam Smith
Protection is the first necessity of opulence and luxury. -- Joseph Conrad
We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony. -- Naeem Khan
If poverty makes man groan, he yawns in opulence. When fortune exempts us from labor, nature overwhelms us with time. -- Antoine Rivarol
It is with the approach of winter that cats...wear their richest fur and assume an air of sumptuous and delightful opulence. -- Pierre Loti
What very often happens when people make films about rich people, the camera is quite mesmerised by the opulence and quite theatrical in fact. -- Tilda Swinton
Out of all the opulences of a living entity its humility which pleases Krishna. Other opulences can also please Krishna if offered with humility. -- Radhanath Swami
The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw. -- John Quincy Adams
The opulence of Wilde is a bit too florid for Sherlock, who is a much darker character, ... fascinated by the human condition, but also overwhelmed by it. -- Rupert Everett
It is a thing which every sensible American should learn from every sensible Englishman, that glare and glitter, gimcracks and gewgaws, are not indispensable to domestic solacement. -- Herman Melville
In a community where public services have failed to keep abreast of private consumption things are very different. Here, in an atmosphere of private opulence and public squalor, the private goods have full sway. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
It is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be forever protected from all harm; it is thus you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you. -- Charles F. Haanel
But while so many white Americans are unaware of conditions inside the ghetto, there are very few ghetto dwellers who are unaware of the life outside. The television sets bombard them day by day with the opulence of the larger society. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
With the greater part of rich people, the chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches, which in their eye is never so complete as when they appear to possess those decisive marks of opulence which nobody can possess but themselves. -- Adam Smith
Religion is for the man in humble life, and to raise his nature, and to put him in mind of a state in which the privileges of opulence will cease, when he will be equal by nature, and may be more than equal by virtue. -- Edmund Burke
Around the middle of last year I started listening to a lot of rap, like Nicki Minaj and Drake. They all sing about such opulence, stuff that just didn't relate to me-or anyone that I knew. I began thinking, 'How are we listening to this? It's completely irrelevant'. -- Lorde
Poverty always looks the same, no matter where you come across it. The rich can always express their opulence by varying their lives. Different houses, clothes, cars. Or thoughts, dreams. But for the poor there is nothing but compulsory grayness, the only form of expression available to poverty. -- Henning Mankell
I like to go for a certain over-the-top opulence when naming the drone pieces whereas the song titles are all about concision, I guess. I mean, if I were truly a purist, I'd call things, "Long Piece #27" or "Newest Fast Song", but I enjoy titling and it is helpful at rehearsals or when making set-lists. -- David First
Plenty is the original cause of many of our needs; and even the poverty, which is so frequent and distressful in civilized nations, proceeds often from that change of manners which opulence has produced. Nature makes us poor only when we want necessaries; but custom gives the name of poverty to the want of superfluities. -- Samuel Johnson
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence of our actual lives. Similarly, we usually spend our waking hours trying to be sure of things - of our decisions, our ideas, our choices. We so want to be right. But we walk by right foot and left foot. -- Jane Hirshfield
The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry. -- Dan Jenkins
Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three - and paradise is when you have none. -- Doug Larson
When we think of India, most of us are in fact thinking of Rajasthan, that large splotch of dun-colored desert in the country's northwest which, from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries, was ruled by a succession of maharajas whose sense of color, opulence, and splendor created the most enduring images of India in the West. -- Hanya Yanagihara
Defense is superior to opulence -- Adam Smith
Only economists mistake physical opulence for riches. -- Aldo Leopold
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul. -- Antisthenes

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