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We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
[Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]
Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.
[Lat., Effodiuntur opes irritamenta malorum.]
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis read more
For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now
obey the alluring influence of riches.
[Lat., Omnis enim res,
Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris
Divitiis parent.]
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity
and you need not give alms.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good.
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he
affordeth nothing else that is good.
Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married
Whether you wind up with a nest egg or a goose egg depends on the kind of chick you married
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
