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Money buys you everything except the chance to do it again.
MCMatthew Clayfield
Wealth is an inborn attitude of mind, like poverty. The pauper who has made his pile may flaunt his spoils, but cannot wear them plausibly.
Jean Cocteau1889–1963Les Enfants Terribles translation by Rosamond Lehmann (1929)
Your Highnesses have an Other World here, by which our holy faith can be so greatly advanced and from which such great wealth can be drawn.
Christopher Columbus1451–1506Letter to the Sovereigns (1498)
- Christianity
Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven.
Confucius551–479 BC
The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.
Confucius551–479 BCOther chapters
- Virtue
The world of finance is a mysterious world in which, incredible as the fact may appear, evaporation precedes liquidation.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Victory: An Island Tale (1915), part I, Ch. 1
- Business
There is no credulity so eager and blind as the credulity of covetousness, which, in its universal extent, measures the moral misery and the intellectual destitution of mankind.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Nostromo (1904), Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 9
To tear treasure out of the bowels of the land was their desire, with no more moral purpose at the back of it than there is in burglars breaking into a safe.
Joseph Conrad1857–1924Heart of Darkness (1899), Part IIn context
- Morality
Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen and six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.
Charles Dickens1812–1870David Copperfield (1850), Chapter 12In context
- Happiness
Debt is the prolific mother of folly and of crime.
Benjamin Disraeli1804–1881Henrietta Temple (1837), Book 2, chapter 1.
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more a man has, the more he wants. Instead of its filling a vacuum, it makes one. If it satisfies one want, it doubles and trebles that want another way. That was a true proverb of the wise man, rely upon it; “Better is little with the fear of the Lord, than great treasure, and trouble therewith.”
DDDavid Alfred Doudney1811–1894Often credited to Benjamin Franklin
To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships.
W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963The Souls of Black Folk (1903), Chapter IIn context
- Race
“We are never quits with those who oblige us,” was Dantès’ reply; “for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.”
Alexandre Dumas1802–1870The Count of Monte Cristo (1844), Volume One, Chapter 2In context
Money doesn’t talk, it swears.
Bob Dylanborn 1941Bringing It All Back Home (1965)
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach1830–1916Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 53.
- Intelligence