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Wealth Quotes by Plato
- Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.
- The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all…
- Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war…
- For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not…
- The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour,…
- The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Wealth does not bring excellence, but that wealth comes from excellence.
- For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire…
- Both poverty and wealth, therefore, have a bad effect on the quality of the work and the workman himself. Wealth and poverty, I answered. One…
- A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to…
- There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.
- The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems,…
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- The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application. — Miguel de Cervantes
- The possessors of wealth can scarcely be indifferent to processes which, nearly or remotely have been the fertile source of their possessions. — Charles Babbage
- Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring… — Walter Bagehot
- Loyalty and friendship, which is to me the same, created all the wealth that I've ever thought I'd have. — Ernie Banks
- The Indian Summer of life should be a little sunny and a little sad, like the season, and infinite in wealth and… — Henry Adams
- For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice… — Aeschylus