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Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.

Quote by Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel about animals, body, soul, rightness, life

The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions.

Quote by Charles Babbage about wealth

Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

Quote by Francis Bacon about patience, soul

Indeed, whenever a new idea is developed, as for example ballooning, warfare immediately takes possession.

Quote by Fredrik Bajer about war, example, idea

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

Quote by Napoleon Bonaparte about treasure, wealth, use

The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves.

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, love, people

Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken.

Quote by Orson Scott about word

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

Quote by Jane Austen about wealth, wife, truth, good, good luck, man

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about wealth

The insurance inspector always shows up to take photos of the building as you are putting the evicted tenant’s possessions on the curb.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about real estate, tenants, contentment

The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.

Quote by Frederick Law Olmsted about power, sensibility, destruction, truth, world

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

Quote by James Cash Penney about man

Freedom is the sure possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.

Quote by Pericles about liberty, courage

Liberty one of Imagination's most precious possessions.

Quote by Ambrose Bierce about liberty, imagination

A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

Quote by Thomas Browne about people, city, truth, man

...it is a very risky thing for anyone to go about proclaiming the truth simply because he finds himself in possession of concrete documentary proofs or on the evidence of his own eyes, which is always overestimated.

Quote by Jorge Amado about truth, eyes, things

Poetry is an excellent game of imagination and intelligence. The more you are in possession of a more serious account in Bank of Imagination and Intelligence, more spectacular the game is.

Quote by Robert Serban about poetry, intelligence, games, imagination, bankers, contentment

Having a right means having something whose possession the society must protects me.

Quote by John Stuart Mill about rightness, society

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

Quote by Democrit about happiness, soul

A poem – in front of its own history, before projecting its promised destiny in the precise habiat of the imaginary, between reality and dream, ought to learn how to take in possession the invariant message of the high love of man.

Quote by Dumitru Găleşanu about eternity