Money Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Money is the product of virtue, but it will not give you virtue and it will not redeem your vices”

— Ayn Rand

“For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he would rather…

— Seneca

“On the contrary, as there is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher, everything was given away,…

— Victor Hugo

“I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but…

— Socrates

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

— Plato

“A man ought not to value himself of his achievements or rare qualities of wit, much less of his riches, virtue or kindred.”

— George Washington

“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those…

— James Lee Burke

“Is worth for a man to lose his soul, and gain worldly wealth?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.”

— Aristotle

“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.”

— Mensah Oteh

“Life for most people compels the exercise of the lower gifts and wastes the precious ones, until it forces us to agree that there…

— Virginia Woolf

“reflect how pleasant it is to demand nothing, how noble it is to be contented and not to be dependent upon Fortune.”

— Seneca