Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness and ugliness.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Author: Publilius Syrus
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
Author: Mark Twain
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I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
Source: Major Barbara (1907) act 2
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.
Author: Aristotle
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The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.
Author: Horace
Source: Odes
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We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Property is an intellectual production. The game requires coolness, right reasoning, promptness, and patience in the players.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first wealth is health.
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him.
Author: Voltaire
Source: Letter (1769)
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But it is a pretty thing to see what money will do!
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Author: Marcus Tullius Cicero
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Early to rise and early to bed makes a male healthy and wealthy and dead.
Author: James Thurber
Source: New Yorker, Feb. 18, 1939 "The Shrike and the Chipmunks
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The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Author: Plato
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Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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There is an old-time toast which is golden for its beauty. "When you ascend the hill of prosperity may you not meet a friend.
Author: Mark Twain
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See how many are better off than you are, but consider how many are worse.
Author: Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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