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• Said Scopas of Thessaly, "We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things.
  -- Plutarch (46-120 AD) -- Of the Love of Wealth...
• We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. Aesop
• A soldier told Pelopidas, "We are fallen among the enemies.
  Said he, "How are we fallen among them more than they among us?...
• The real measure of out wealth is how much we'd be worth if we lost all our money.
  -- John Henry Jowe...
• We really don't have any enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
• We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first. -- Heinrich Heine