Character Quote by Solon

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

— Solon

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

— Posidonius

It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and…

— Saint Augustine

Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.

— Anonymous

Yet living and dying, honour and dishonour, pain and pleasure, riches and poverty, and so forth are equally the lot of good men and…

— Marcus Aurelius

Adversity makes men wise but not rich.

— John Ray

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

— John Ray

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

— John Philpot Curran

Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.

— Ambrose

Evil men by their own nature cannot ever prosper.

— Euripides

They that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and…

— Paul the Apostle

Rich men are neither better nor worse than all other humans. They contribute to greatness or mediocrity, strength of character or weakness in exactly…

— Julius Rosenwald