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Infinite riches in a little room.
Infinite riches in a little room.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
So many people spend their health gaining wealth, and then have to spend their wealth to regain their health.
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from read more
Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.
He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.
He does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.
 Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
 An incarnation of fat dividends.  
 Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends,
 An incarnation of fat dividends. 
 The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal 
amount of wealth, but in which read more 
 The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal 
amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his 
contribution to the general stock. 
 He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
 [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
  Et read more 
 He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
 [Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
  Et cito vult fieri.] 
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
These riches are possess'd, but not enjoy'd!
 It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great 
fortune; to acquire it is difficult read more 
 It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great 
fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.
 [Lat., Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione 
magnae fortunae; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum 
est.]