Alas Quote by Thomas Haynes Bayly

Don't envy those who make their wealth in an ungodly way. The wicked seem to prosper now and live without care but they will…

— T. B. Joshua

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

— Tacitus

It would be a considerable consolation to the poor and discontented could they but see the means whereby the wealth they covet has been…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

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

— Quintilian

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

— Posidonius

Wealth is a blessing, richness is a curse

— Michael Sams

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

— Plutarch

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

— Plato

Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit.

— Leo Tolstoy

Many succumb to despair and fail without realizing that they already possess all the tools needed to acquire great wealth.

— Og Mandino

Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.

— St. Catherine of Siena

“It is true that wealth buys power and influence, but it does not buy morality, or kindness, or compassion. The pursuit of wealth can…

— Joseph M. Marshall III