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• Riches are well, if gotten well and spent well.

  Vespasian

  Wells, Ifs

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• Riches are of no value in themselves; their use is discovered only in that which they procure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Use, Values

  Samuel Johnson (1761). “The Rambler: In Four Volumes”, p.208

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• Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Self Improvement, Use, Treasure

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• Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

  Epicurus

  Philosophical, Loss, Envy

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• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friendship, Family, Wisdom

  Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.1168, Delphi Classics

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• If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

  Jonathan Swift

  Happiness, Success, Heaven

  Letter to Miss Vanhomrigh, 12 - 13 Aug. 1720 See Luther 3; Steele 2

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Life, Positive, Beautiful

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• To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Rich

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.228

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• If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love.

  Confucius

  Successful, Hands, May

  Confucius, Mencius, Ssǔ shu, Wu king, Shu Ching (1861). “The Chinese Classics”

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• Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.

  Horace

  Desire, Care, Wealth

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• Riches amassed in haste will diminish; but those collected by hand and little by little will multiply.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hands, Haste, Littles

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• Riches, rightly used, breed delight.

  Plautus

  Delight, Used

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• A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

  Richard Burton

  Men, Gold, Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

  Epicurus

  Happiness, Being Happy, Money

  Epicurus (2016). “Principal Doctrines”, p.14, Lulu.com

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• For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches.

  Plato

  Love, Children, Plato

  Plato (2005). “The Republic”, p.20, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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• He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Caring, Care, Consumerism

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.23, Nayika Publishing

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• O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

  William Shakespeare

  Years, Three, Looks

  William Shakespeare, Barry Cornwall (1857). “Tempest”, p.100

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• I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money.

  Pablo Picasso

  Witty, Money, Men

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• Riches are for the comfort of life, and not life for the accumulation of riches. I asked a holy wise man, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?" He replied: "He was fortunate who ate and sowed, and he was unfortunate who died without having enjoyed.

  Saadi

  Wise, Men, Comfort

  Saadi, Francis Gladwin, Eric Serejski (2016). “Gulistan or Rose Garden”, p.147, Innovations and Information

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• One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

  Samuel Johnson

  Causes, Wealth, Owners

  Alexander Pope, William Lisle Bowles, Samuel Johnson, Alexander Chalmers, Gilbert Wakefield (1806). “The Works of Alexander Pope, Esq. in Verse and Prose: Containing the Principal Notes of Drs. Warburton and Warton: Illustrations, and Critical and Explanatory Remarks, by Johnson, Wakefield, A. Chalmers ... and Others; to which are Added, Now First Published, Some Original Letters, with Additional Observations, and Memoirs of the Life of the Author”, p.293

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• We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

  Red Cloud

  Love, Peace, Native American

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• As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Men, Honor, Fool

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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  Seneca the Younger

  Acquisition, Faults, Misery

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• The jests of the rich are ever successful.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Successful, Wealth, Rich

  Oliver Goldsmith (1809). “The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale”, p.39

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• For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.

  Horace

  Honor, Influence, Wealth

  "Satires", II. 3. 94, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 864-67, 1922.

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