1. Obtaining credit comes at a high price. ——Jerold

2. Boldness is the price paid for progress. ——French writer Victor Hugo

3. For a noble goal, I am willing to pay any price. ——French thinker and writer Romain Rolland

4. It is a myth to want to get happiness without paying any price. ——Chinese revolutionary and educator Xu Teli

5. How can you get something if you don’t pay? How can you gain something if you don’t work? Only by giving can you get, and only by labor can you gain. ——Xia Penghui

6. A person can find his own world anywhere, as long as he is willing to pay the price. ——British and American writer Henry James

7. The price paid for seeking truth is always much higher than possessing it without risk. ——German dramatist Lessing

8. Every business must make money. Free is not a good strategy, and the price it pays will be very high. ——Jack Ma

9. Speculative reasoning philosophers have put in so much pain, but it is often formed naturally and without thinking by lay people. ——Hume, the 18th century British philosopher and historian

10. If money is the value measure of commodities, then time is the value measure of efficiency. Therefore, a person who is inefficient will pay a high price for it. ——British Renaissance writer and philosopher Bacon

11. The income of a country is the part of his own property that each citizen pays to ensure the safety of his remaining property or the happy enjoyment of it. ——French thinker and jurist Montesquieu

12. For a kind-hearted person, the idea that a price must be paid is an insult in itself. Virtue is not a decoration, but the expression of a beautiful soul.

——French writer Gide