You May Also Like / View all maxioms
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
It is sheer madness to live in want in order to be wealthy when you die.
Since all the riches of this world
May be gifts from the devil and earthly kings,
I read more
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.
Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
Much learning shows how little mortals know:
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy.
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis read more
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great
fortune; to acquire it is difficult read more
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.]
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.
