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Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a
well-stored chest intercepts the truth.
[Lat., Opes invisae merito sunt forti viro,
Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.]
Author: Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Source: Fables (IV, 12, 1)
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I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]
Author: Plautus (Titus Maccius Plautus)
Source: Aulularia (II, 2, 30)
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Epistles of Horace (ep. I, bk. I, l. 103)
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What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.
Is this too little?
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Author: Alexander Pope
Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
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All gold and silver rather turn to dirt,
An 'tis no better reckoned but of these
Who worship dirty gods.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Cymbeline (Arviragus at III, vi)
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If thou art rich, thou'rt poor,
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: Measure for Measure (Vincentio, the Duke at III, i)
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All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
But my outside to behold.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merchant of Venice (Morocco at II, vii), requoting a proverb
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O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.
Author: William Shakespeare
Source: The Merry Wives of Windsor (Anne Page at III, iv)
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Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
Author: Charles Sprague
Source: Curiosity (st. 25)
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No, he was no such charlatan--
Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan--
Full of gasconade and bravado,
But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
His was the rental of half Havana
And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
Rich as he was, could hardly hold
A candle to light the mines of gold
Our Cuban owned.
Author: Edmund C. Stedman
Source: The Diamond Wedding (st. 7)
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The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. . . . It
was verily prettily said that we may learn the little value of
fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
Author: Sir Richard Steele
Source: in the "Tatler", no. 203
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If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Author: Jonathan Swift
Source: Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh
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No good man ever became suddenly rich.
[Lat., Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.]
Author: Syrus (Publilius Syrus)
Source: Maxims
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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above
his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he
to a gold mine!
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Source: Holy Living--Of Humility (ch. II, sc. 4)
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can let
alone.
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Source: Holy Living--Of Humility (ch. II, sc. 4)
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I've been rich and I've been poor; rich is better.
Author: Jeremy Taylor
Source: Holy Living--Of Humility (ch. II, sc. 4)
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Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls for more.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Love of Fame (satire V, l. 394)
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Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
Author: Edward Young
Source: Night Thoughts (night VI, l. 519)
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When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
Author: Don Marquis
Source: None
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If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free. If our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.
Author: Edmund Burke
Source: None
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The rich are more envied by those who have a little, than by those who have nothing.
Author: Charles Caleb Colton
Source: None
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A learned man has always wealth in himself.
Author: Latin Proverb
Source: None
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Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
Author: Arabian Proverb
Source: None
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'Tis a sort of duty to be rich, that it may be in one's power to do good, riches being another word for power.
Author: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Source: None
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I have no riches but my thoughts Yet these are wealth enough for me.
Author: Sara Teasdale
Source: None
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Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
Author: Plato
Source: None
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only. Money is not required to buy one necessary of the soul.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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As the person who has health is young, so the person who owes nothing is rich.
Author: Proverb
Source: None
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A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.
Author: Spanish Proverb
Source: None
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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Author: Source Unknown
Source: None
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Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broken in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.
Author: R. Venning
Source: None
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Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.
Author: Francis Bacon
Source: None
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Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married
Author: Wall Street Journal
Source: None
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There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
Author: Wilson Mizner
Source: None
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It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Author: Juvenal
Source: None
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This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor.
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Source: None
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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.
Author: Andrew Carnegie
Source: None
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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Author: Winston Churchill
Source: None
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Without a rich heart wealth is an ugly beggar.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source: None
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The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
Author: Miguel De Cervantes
Source: None
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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Author: Henry David Thoreau
Source: None
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The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Author: Socrates
Source: None
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Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
Author: Benjamin Franklin
Source: None
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If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
Author: Socrates
Source: None
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