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Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.
You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I
were to become suddenly rich read more
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?
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
There's nothing so comfortable as a small bankroll. A big one is always in danger.
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus read more
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
[Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
Riches either serve or govern the possessor.
[Lat., Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique.]
Midas-eared Mammonism, double-barrelled Dilettantism, and their
thousand adjuncts and corollaries, are not the Law by which God
Almighty read more
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.
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life read more
All that glisters is not gold;
Often have you heard that told;
Many a man his life hath sold;
But my outside to behold.