Quotes About Wealth

I believe that oligarchy follows next in order. And what manner of government do you term oligarchy? A government resting on a valuation of property, in which the rich have power and the poor man is deprived of it. I

those who have made their own money don't just care about it because {5} it's useful, as other people do, but because it's something they've made themselves.

Un buen consejo viene de la ciencia y no de las riquezas.

And so they grow richer and richer, and the more they think of making a fortune the less they think of virtue; for when riches and virtue are placed together in the scales of the balance the one always rises as the other falls.

Only the body and its desires cause war, civil discord, and battles, for all wars are due to the desire to acquire wealth, and it is the body and the care of it, to which [d] we are enslaved, which compel us to acquire wealth, and all this makes us too busy to practice philosophy.

Examina si estas otras cosas no corrompen a los demás trabajadores hasta el punto de ocasionar su perversión. -¿Y cuáles son ellas? -La riqueza -contesté- y la indigencia.

tanto con la riqueza como con la indigencia resultan peores los productos de las artes y peores también los que las practican.

Wealth, I said, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

Then you have sufficient indication, he said, that any man whom you see resenting death was not a lover of wisdom but a lover of the body, and also a lover of wealth or of honors, either or both.

For I go around doing nothing but persuading both young and old among you not to care for your [b]body or your wealth in preference to or as strongly as for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively."13

Women do not like to forgo the 'luxuries of life' and 'conspicuous consumption

Men engrossed in the pursuit of money are unfit to rule a state.

No sale de las riquezas la virtud para los hombres, sino de la virtud, las riquezas y todos los otros bienes, tanto los privados como los públicos.

Other sort of training, which aims at the acquisition of wealth or bodily strength, or mere cleverness apart from intelligence and justice, is mean and illiberal, and is not worthy to be called education at all.

O beloved Pan and all ye other gods of this place, grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich; and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure. -Socrates

O beloved Pan and all ye other gods of this place, grant to me that I be made beautiful in my soul within, and that all external possessions be in harmony with my inner man. May I consider the wise man rich; and may I have such wealth as only the self-restrained man can bear or endure.

tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This

The right is nothing more than what benefits the powerful.

All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue.

When my sons are grown up, I would ask you, O my friends, to punish them; and I would have you trouble them, as I have troubled you, if they seem to care about riches, or anything, more than about virtue; or if they pretend to be something when they are really nothing,—then reprove them, as I have reproved you, for not caring about that for which they ought to care, and thinking that they are something when they are really nothing.

After all, what is money apart from what it can buy?

Today is truly the Golden Age: gold buys hornor, gold procures love

O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint, agricolas

The key to liberation from the power of materialism is not an exodus from culture - abandoning Wall Street or leaving the wealth of the nation to others - but the grace of giving... Givers for God disarm the power of money. They invite God's grace to flow through them.