Consolation Quote by Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

— Publilius Syrus

Those that have wealth must be watchful and wary, Power, alas! naught but misery brings!

— Thomas Haynes Bayly

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent

— Plato

The miserable consumption of the poor is partly the result of the ostentatious demands of the rich. There isn't enough for both, and the…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

I have observed that the prosperity or misery of each people is in direct proportion to its liberties or its prejudices and, accordingly, to…

— Jose Rizal

Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine…

— Louisa May Alcott

Consider these people, then, their way of life, their habits, their manners, the very tones of their voice; look at them attentively; observe the…

— Matthew Arnold

“In every instance I noted that a people’s prosperity or misery lay in direct proportion to its freedom or its inhibitions and, along the…

— José Rizal

The prosperous can not easily form a right idea of misery.

— Quintilian

We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

— Tacitus

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

— Henry Ford