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I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus read more
I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.
[Lat., Nemini credo, qui large blandus est dives pauperi.]
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Infinite riches in a little room.
Infinite riches in a little room.
Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.
Dame Nature gave him comeliness and health,
And Fortune (for a passport) gave him wealth.
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.
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time
Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time
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?
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
Let none admire
That riches grow in hell; that soil may best
Deserve the precious bane.
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et read more
Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed
no more than seaweed.
[Lat., Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior alga est.]
