Money is like sex. It seems much more important when you don’t have any…
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete, devotes his heart entirely to money.
Money is freedom in the form of coins, and so for a man who has been completely deprived of freedom it is ten times as dear.[Деньги есть чеканенная свобода, а потому для человека, лишенного совершенно свободы, они дороже вдесятеро.]
Money from nowhere almost always spells trouble.
Money doesn’t buy happiness, but it buys everything else.
Money doesn’t care who owns it. A bum can win it in a lottery, or a dunce can inherit it, or someone can get it by holding up a bank. But power – that’s something different. To have power is to own the world.
Making money isn’t hard in itself. What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.
It’s wonderful what money can do.
It’s hell when you’re too good to make money.
It is pleasant for money to come into our purse; but when the time comes that we have to give it back, then the pangs of labour seize us.[L’argent dans une bourse entre agréablement; Mais le terme venu que nous devons le rendre, C’est lors que les douleurs commencent à nous prendre.]
In this world, everything is a fake. Everything except money.
If you care for money too much, it is only the money you see, everything else is in shadow.
