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Aristotle1 quote
The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool. — Aristotle · 322 BCFrancis Bacon1 quote
Prosperity doth best discover Vice; But Adversity doth best discover Vertue. — Francis Bacon · 1625G.K. Chesterton1 quote
Among the Very Rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. — G.K. Chesterton · 1912Honore de Balzac1 quote
Prosperity brings with it an intoxication which inferior men are unable to resist. — Honore de Balzac · 1837Howard1 quote
Yeah, I know what gold does to men's souls. — Howard · 1948John Maynard Keynes1 quote
When 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 · 1930Socrates1 quote
Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. — Socrates · 375 BC