Monopolized, because of which
It falls to me to labor as
A Little Brother of the Rich.
But wealth is a great means of refinement;
and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties.
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.
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.
Opum furiata cupido.
The ungovernable passion for wealth.
Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
Embarras des richesse.
Embarrassment of riches.
Opes invisie merito sunt forti viro,
Quia dives area veram Iaudem intercipit.
Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth.
Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace;
If not, by any means get wealth and place.
What riches give us let us then inquire:
Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire.
Is this too little?
Riches certainly make themselves wings.
He that maketh haste to be rich shall not be innocent.
He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
All gold and silver rather turn to dirt!
As 'tis no better reckon'd, but of those
Who worship dirty gods.
If thou art rich, thou art poor;
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
O what a world of vile ill-favour'd faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!
Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
An incarnation of fat dividends.
No, he was no such charlatan—
Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan—
Full of gasconade and bravado,
But a regular, rich Don Rataplane,
Santa Claus de la Muscavado,
Senor Grandissimo Bastinado!
His was the rental of half Havana
And all Matanzas; and Santa Ana,
Rich as he was, could hardly hold
A candle to light the mines of gold
Our Cuban owned.
The man is mechanically turned, and made for getting. ... It was very prettily said that we may learn the little value of fortune by the persons on whom Heaven is pleased to bestow it.
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Repente dives nemo factus est bonus.
No good man ever became suddenly rich.
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he be exalted above his neighbors because he hath more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine!
Rich in good works.
Can wealth give happiness? look round and see
What gay distress! what splendid misery!
Whatever fortunes lavishly can pour,
The mind annihilates, and calls tor more.
