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Philosophical literature7 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 BCRiches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress. — Francis Bacon · 1605A great fortune is a great slavery. — Seneca · 44Property, possessions and riches had also finally trapped him. They were no longer a game and a toy. They had become a chain and a burden. — Hermann Hesse · 1922All 7 quotes →Religious literature6 quotes
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 · 60No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon. — Jesus · 60He that trusteth in his riches shall fall. — Proverbs 11:28 · 686 BCFor what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? — Jesus · 60Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven. — Jesus · 60Give me neither poverty nor riches. — Proverbs 30:8 · 686 BCDrama3 quotes
Now mama said there’s only so much fortune a man really needs…and the rest is just for showing off. — Forrest Gump · 1994You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. — Kane · 1941Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941Drama (film)3 quotes
Now mama said there’s only so much fortune a man really needs…and the rest is just for showing off. — Forrest Gump · 1994You know, Mr. Bernstein, if I hadn't been very rich, I might have been a really great man. — Kane · 1941Well, it's no trick to make a lot of money if all you want is to make a lot of money. — Mr. Bernstein · 1941Economic literature3 quotes
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958The chief enjoyment of riches consists in the parade of riches. — Adam Smith · 1776When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals... The love of money as a possession—as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life—will be recognized for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semi-criminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease. — John Maynard Keynes · 1930Biography2 quotes
How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato's maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery. — PlutarchHe has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion of BorysthenesComedy (play)2 quotes
I glory
More in the cunning purchase of my wealth,
Than in the glad possession. — Ben Jonson · 1606They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. — William Shakespeare · 1598Historical literature2 quotes
How strongly does this bear out the truth of Plato's maxim, that he who wishes to be really rich ought to lessen his desires rather than increase his property, because if a man places no bounds to his covetousness, he never will be free from want and misery. — PlutarchThe renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession. — Sallust · 42 BCAutobiography and memoir1 quote
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Commencement address1 quote
I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame so that they could see that it’s not where you’re going to find your sense of completion. — Jim Carrey · 2014Drama (play)1 quote
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. — George Bernard Shaw · 1905Feminist literature1 quote
Fetters of gold are still fetters, and the softest lining can never make them so easy as liberty. — Mary Astell · 1696Political literature1 quote
Riches, knowledge and honour are but several sorts of power. — Thomas Hobbes · 1651Political speech1 quote
Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. — Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933Rock music1 quote
Please allow me to introduce myself
I'm a man of wealth and taste. — The Rolling Stones · 1968Sociology1 quote
Wealth is not without its advantages and the case to the contrary, although it has often been made, has never proved widely persuasive. — John Kenneth Galbraith · 1958Travel writing1 quote
Virtue never has been as respectable as money. — Mark Twain · 1869Wisdom literature1 quote
Do not set your heart on wealth…
Do not strain to seek increase,
What you have, let it suffice you.
If riches come by theft,
They will not stay the night with you….
They made themselves wings like geese,
And flew away to the sky. — Amenemope · 1075 BC