Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession, many.
Cleon hath ten thousand acres,—
Ne'er a one have I;
Cleon dwelleth in a palace,—
In a cottage I.
Property in land is capital; property in the
funds is income without capital; property in
mortgage is both capital and income.
Lord Mansfield.
Extra fortunam est, quidquid donatur amicis;
Quas dederis, selas semper habebis opes.
Who gives to friends so much from Fate secures,
That is the only wealth for ever yours.
Martial—Epigrams. V. 42.
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| text = <poem>Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with
mine own?
Matthew. XX. 15.
Unto every one that hath shall be given, and
he shall have abundance; but from him that
hath not shall be taken away even that which he
hath.
Matthew. XXV. 29.
v
Ce chien est a moi, disaient ces pauvres enfants; c'est la ma place au soleil. Voila le commencement et 1'image de l'usurpation de toute
la terre.
That dog is mine said those poor children;
that place in the sun is mine; such is the beginning and type of usurpation throughout
the earth.
Pascal—La Pensées. Ch. VII. 1.
| seealso = (See also Gage)
| topic = Possession
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| text = <poem>Male partum, male disperit.
Badly gotten, badly spent.
Plautus—Pan. IV. 2. 22.
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| text = What is yours is mine, and all mine is yours.
Plautus—Trinummus. Act II. Sc. 2. Riley's trans.
Non tihi illud apparere si sumas potest.
If you spend a thing you can not have it.
Plautus—Trinummus. II. 4. 12.
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Nihil enim seque gratum est adeptis, quam
concupiscentibus.
An object in possession seldom retains the
same charms which it had when it was longed
for.
Pliny the Younger—Epistles. II. 15.
La propriety, c'est le vol.
Property, it is theft.
Prud'hon—Principle of Right. Ch. I. Attributed to Fournier by Louis Blanc—
Organization du Travail.
| seealso = (See also Brissot)
| topic = Possession
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>The goods we spend we keep; and what we save
We lose; and only what we lose we have.
Quarles—Divine Fancies. Bk. IV. Art. 70.
Early instances of same in Seneca—De
Beneficiis. LVI. Ch. III. Gesta Romanorum. Ch. XVI. Ed. 1872. P. 300. Jeremy Taylor. Note to Holy Dying. Ch.
II. Sec. XIII. Vol. III. of Works. C. P.
Eden's ed.
| seealso = (See also Martial, also Courtenay under Epitaphs, Miller under Gifts)
Ich heisse
Der reichste Mann in der getauften Welt;
Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter.
I am called the richest man in Christendom.
The sun never sets on my dominions.
The king of Spain is a great potentate, who stands with one foot in the east and the other in the west; and the sun never sets that it does not shine on some of his dominions.
The sun never sets on the immense empire of Charles V.
That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,
Why, then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
While it was ours.
I ne'er could any lustre see
In eyes that would not look on me;
I ne'er saw nectar on a lip
But where my own did hope to sip.
Why should the brave Spanish soldiers brag?
The sunne never sets in the Spanish dominions, but ever shineth on one part or other we have conquered for our king.
