You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I
were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine
what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become
a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?
Marcus Valerius Martial
Quotes , Source: Epigrams (bk. XII, ep. 92)
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The little sister of the Poor
. . . .
The Poor, and their concerns, she has
Monopolized, because of which
It falls to me to labor as
A Little Brother of the Rich.
Edward Sanford Martin
Quotes , Source: A Little Brother of the Rich
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Those who we strive to benefit
Dear to our hearts soon grow to be;
I love my Rich, and I admit
That they are very good to me.
Succor the poor, my sisters,--I
While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health
Will strive to share and mollify
The trials of abounding wealth.
Edward Sanford Martin
Quotes , Source: A Little Brother of the Rich
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But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security
for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
- Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell),
Ik Marvel (pseudonym of Donald G. Mitchell)
Quotes , Source: Reveries of a Bachelor--Over his Cigar (III)
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Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
John Milton
Quotes , Source: Paradise Lost (bk. I, l. 690)
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I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Edward Moore
Quotes , Source: The Gamester (act II, sc. 2)
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Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
[Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)
Quotes , Source: Metamorphoses (I, 140)
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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.]
Phaedrus (Thrace of Macedonia)
Quotes , Source: Fables (IV, 12, 1)
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Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , 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?
Alexander Pope
Quotes , Source: Moral Essays (ep. III, l. 79)
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Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Alexander Pope
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
William Shakespeare
Quotes , 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.
Charles Sprague
Quotes , 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.
Edmund C. Stedman
Quotes , 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.
Sir Richard Steele
Quotes , 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.
Jonathan Swift
Quotes , Source: Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh
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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!
Jeremy Taylor
Quotes , 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.
Jeremy Taylor
Quotes , Source: Holy Living--Of Humility (ch. II, sc. 4)
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