Believe Quote by Francis Bacon

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Those that say they despise riches are saints or liars.

— Austin O'Malley

Riches for the most part are hurtful to them that possess them.

— Plutarch

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

— Dick Gregory

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Riches are oftener an impediment than a stimulus to action; and in many cases they are quite as much a misfortune as a blessing.

— Samuel Smiles

Riches are gotten with pain, kept with care, and lost with grief. The cares of riches lie heavier upon a good man than the…

— Roger L'Estrange

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

— Fanny Burney

Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.

— Epicurus

Riches are a cause of evil, not because, of themselves, they do any evil, but because they goad men on to evil.

— Posidonius

“To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, surely, must be more beneficial to mankind.”

— Frances Burney