Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

Superfluous wealth can buy superfluities only.

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.]

He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
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He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately.
[Lat., Dives fieri qui vult
Et cito vult fieri.]

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.

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?

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.]

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

A rich man is either a scoundrel or the heir of a scoundrel.

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to read more

A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books.