Wealth

Health is of greater value than the wealth of a patient; and there is no one who prefers the health of a man in mediocrity to the riches of a king overwhelmed with diseases.

To suffer, to grow old, and to die, are the greatest evils of life; riches bring no remedy to all this; but through them one falls more often sick, one often gets older sooner, and one reaches more quickly to the death.

The true measure of wealth is to be neither too close nor too far from poverty.

Without the economy, there is no riches sufficiently large; with it, there are not too small.

The greatest scourge is wealth united to ignorance.

Wealth possesses more men than men possess them.

Wealth, what counts, is not to dispose of it but to enjoy it.

According to the decrees of destiny, wealth comes and goes.

Wealth serves as a cloak for more than one vice.

The possessor of great riches indulges in the joy of the most insolent pride: a gust of wind is nevertheless the master of his treasures.

Happiness alone depicts wealth health alone is wealth.

Wealth is only a white frost for man, but wisdom is a solid ice.

There are more people possessed by wealth than there are who possess them.

Expenditure alone makes all the merit of wealth.

Riches are better suited to softening than to elevate courage, and a man of heart, ill-divided by the wealth of fortune, is often more formidable than he who is overwhelmed with his benefits.

One can possess wealth without enjoying it, a good job makes them alone worth.

Only he who can dispense with wealth is worthy to enjoy.

There are such riches in the heart, that it can, without being impoverished, lend them all to the most miserable object. Like the idolater, the heart most often worships the work of his hands.

Individual wealth, which is ignorance, error, or folly among the miser, becomes a crime in the philosopher and the religious man, if they do not make good use of it. It is at least a weakness and an imperfection in generous souls, since it gives them the monopoly of benevolence. The only wealth legitimated by reason is universal wealth.

Wealth is only what we can spend.

Wealth gives birth or avarice or insolence.

Many people, flattering themselves that with their wealth they could buy everything, put themselves up for sale.

The wealth of a woman, her birth, her state in the world, are not appreciated as much as she appreciates herself as by her servants, and assure her of superiority only in their eyes.

Anarchist: Activist who destroys all the riches before redistributing them.

Order is the wealth of the poor, and the future of the children.

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