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Letters to My Brother by the artist Vincent van Gogh,
nothing is really very important in the lives of men; nothing is as terrifying as the fear itself. And
Nearly everyone’s ego and self-confidence is more fragile than the outside world believes.
Seeking substantial wealth is almost always a fool’s game. The statistics show that very few people ever succeed. Most of them should never have made the attempt in the first place. They aren’t suited to it, and if that sounds defeatist, then consider the fact that the search will take up a great deal of your waking life for many, many years.
The time spent attempting to acquire wealth will mount up and cannot be reclaimed, whether you succeed or whether you fail.
No luxury of choices for rich little you. You will be too busy keeping the sea from washing away the sand you have spent so long collecting at such terrible cost to your health and your sanity and your relationships with others.
The only people the self-made rich can trust are those who knew them before they became wealthy. For many newly rich people, the world becomes a smaller, less generous and darker place. It sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it? Ridiculous and gloomy.
