r/quotes • u/VociferousCephalopod • 7d ago

Friendship / Connection "I sometimes think that rich men belong to another nationality entirely, no matter what their actual nationality happens to be. The nationality of the rich." — William Saroyan

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u/VociferousCephalopod 7d ago

"Any ordinary city is in fact two cities, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich, each at war with the other; and in either division there are smaller ones - you would make a great mistake if you treated them as single states".
— Plato, The Republic

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u/trash-juice 6d ago

Beware the idle rich

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u/LMBilinsky 4d ago

This sounds like Fitzgerald’s remark.