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An alien Indian, hailing from afar, Who in the town of Quito did abide. And neighbor claimed to be of Bogata, There having come, I know not by what way, Did with him speak and solemnly announce A country rich in emeralds and gold.

Divitiae bona ancilla, pessima domina.Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress. Francis Bacon, De dignitate et augmentis scientiarium, Book VI, Exemplum Antithetorum 6

Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth. Ovid, Metamorphoses, I. 140

If we command our wealth, we shall be rich and free; if our wealth commands us, we are poor indeed.Edmund Burke, Letters on a Regicide Peace

— Wealth peace

Virtue cannot dwell with wealth either in a city or in a house.Diogenes of Sinope Stobaeus, iv. 31c. 88

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I have lift up mine hand unto the LORD, the most high God, the possessor of heaven and earth, That I will not take from a thread even to a shoelatchet, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abram rich.Abraham to the King of Sodom, in Genesis 14:22 - 23 KJV

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.Aristotle in Politics.

— Wealth happiness

Also, among the things which them engaged, A certain king he told of who, disrobed, Upon a lake was wont, aboard a raft, To make oblations, as himself had seen, His regal form overspread with fragrant oil On which was laid a coat of powdered gold From sole of foot unto his highest brow, Resplendent as the beaming of the sun.

— Wealth self

Base wealth preferring to eternal praise.Homer, The Iliad, Book XXIII, line 368. Popes translation

— Wealth book

For wealth, without contentment, climbs a hill, To feel those tempests which fly over ditches.George Herbert, The Church Porch, Stanza 19

Non esse cupidum, pecunia est; non esse emacem, vectigal est; contentum vero suis rebus esse, maximae sunt, certissimaeque divitiae.Not to be avaricious is money; not to be fond of buying is a revenue; but to be content with our own is the greatest and most certain wealth of all. Cicero, Paradoxa, 6. 3

— Wealth money

Omnis enim res, Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris Divitiis parent.For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches. Horace, Satires, II. 3. 94

Opes invisæ merito sunt forti viro, Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit.Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth. Phaedrus, Fables, IV. 12. 1

— Wealth truth

Power and riches appear then to be, what they are, enormous and operose machines contrived to produce a few trifling conveniencies to the body, consisting of springs the most nice and delicate, which must be kept in order with the most anxious attention, and which, in spite of all our care, are ready every moment to burst into pieces, and to crush in their ruins their unfortunate possessor. They are immense fabrics, which it requires the labour of a life to raise, which threaten every moment to overwhelm the person that dwells in them, and which while they stand, though they may save him from some smaller inconveniencies, can protect him from none of the severer inclemencies.Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, Part 4, Chapter 1

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Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illa Fortuna.Common sense among men of fortune is rare. Juvenal, Satires, VIII. 73

What Jesus meant, was this. He said to man, ‘You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don’t imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your perfection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you. And try also to get rid of personal property. It involves sordid preoccupation, endless industry, continual wrong. Personal property hinders Individualism at every step.’Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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