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It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
[Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione
magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum
est.]
Titus Livy
Quotes , Source: Annales (XXIV, 22)
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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
Oscar Wilde
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Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand
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A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.
Pablo Picasso
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So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
A. J. Reb Materi
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This is an impressive crowd: the Have's and Have-more's. Some people call you the elites. I call you my base.
George W. Bush
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Many men of course became extremely rich, but this was perfectly natural and nothing to be ashamed of because no one was really poor, at least no one worth speaking of.
Douglas Adams
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A little house well fill'd, a little land well till'd, and a
little wife well will'd, are great riches.
Unattributed Author
Quotes , Source: written in a copy of the "Grete Herbal"
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There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust.
John Armstrong
Quotes , Source: Art of Preserving Health (bk. II, l. 195)
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That they do good, that they be rich in good works, ready to
distribute, willing to communicate;
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the
time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.
Bible
Quotes , Source: I Timothy (ch. VI, v. 18-19)
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And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through
the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the
kingdom of God.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Matthew (ch. XIX, v. 24)
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Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches
certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward
heaven.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXIII, v. 5)
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A faithful man shall abound with blessings; but he that maketh
haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Proverbs (ch. XXVIII, v. 20)
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Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are
disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who
shall gather them.
Bible
Quotes , Source: Psalms (ch. XXXIX, v. 6)
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I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.
William Blake
Quotes , Source: Mammon
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Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I should suspect that I worshipped the devil
If I thanked my God for worldly things.
William Blake
Quotes , Source: Riches
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But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate,
When we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too
late.
Will Carleton
Quotes , Source: The Ancient Miner's Story
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Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty has appointed this His universe to go.
Thomas Carlyle
Quotes , Source: Past and Present (ch. VI)
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Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to
administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
Andrew Carnegie
Quotes , Source: Gospel of Wealth
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Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a
revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most
certain wealth of all.
[Lat., Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal
est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque
divitiae.]
Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero)
Quotes , Source: Paradoxa (6, 3)
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