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.]

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

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

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

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.]

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.

I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I read more

I have mental joys and mental health,
Mental friends and mental wealth,
I've a wife that I love and that loves me;
I've all but riches bodily.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

The ungovernable passion for wealth.
[Lat., Opum furiata cupido.]

There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or read more

There are, while human miseries abound,
A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth,
Without one fool or flatterer at your board,
Without one hour of sickness or disgust.