That’s the difference between the rich and the poor. The poor walk; the rich ride in carriages.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Some people are foolish enough to imagine that wealth and power and fame satisfy our hearts: but they never do, unless they are used to create and distribute happiness in the world.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor Liberty to purchase power.
Scorn for wealth among philosophers was at bottom a desire to avenge themselves against fate, by despising the very things of which she deprived them. It was a strategic way of avoiding the humiliations of poverty, a roundabout way of gaining an esteem they could not gain through wealth.[Le mépris des richesses était dans les philosophes un désir cache de venger leur mérite de l’injustice de la fortune par le mépris des mêmes biens dont elle les privait; c’était un secret pour se garantir de l’avilissement de la pauvreté; c’était un chemin détourné pour aller à la considération qu’ils ne pouvaient avoir par les richesses.]
Riches, one may say, are like sea-water: the more you drink, the thirstier you become; and the same is true of fame.[Der Reichtum gleicht dem Seewasser: je mehr man davon trinkt, desto durstiger wird man. – Dasselbe gilt vom Ruhm.]
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
REMEMBER that your real wealth can be measured, not by what you have, but, by what you are.
Poverty of goods is easy to cure, poverty of soul impossible.[La pauvreté de biens est aisée à guérir, la pauvreté de l’âme impossible.]
Possessions entrap men, and wealth paralyzes them.
Poor and content is rich and rich enough.
Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you.
