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Classical antiquity6 quotes
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool. — Aristotle · 322 BCWealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BCPlenty has made me poor. — Ovid · 8A great fortune is a great slavery. — Seneca · 44He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion of BorysthenesIn truth, prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. — Sallust · 42 BCThe Renaissance3 quotes
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress. — Francis Bacon · 1605Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue. — Francis Bacon · 1625They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare · 1598Age of Enlightenment1 quote
Why should man be in love with his fetters, though of gold? — Francis Bacon · 1626Colonial America1 quote
He who multiplies Riches multiplies Cares. — Benjamin Franklin · 1744New Testament Era1 quote
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. — Jesus · 60