O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.

Riches are a good handmaiden, but the worst mistress.

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?

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.

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.

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.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money.

You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I
were to become suddenly rich read more

You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I
were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine
what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become
a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?