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| A great estate is not gotten in a few hours. French. | 1 |
| A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune. | 2 |
| A great fortune is a great slavery. | 3 |
| A man has no more goods than he gets good by. | 4 |
| A man of wealth is a slave to his possessions. Tamil. | 5 |
| A man’s wealth is his enemy. | 6 |
| A wealthy man errs with impunity. Latin. | 7 |
| Among men some have their virtue concealed by wealth, and some their vices by poverty. Theganis. | 8 |
| Command your wealth, else that will command you. | 9 |
| Devotion and wealth are seldom united. German. | 10 |
Fathers their children and themselves abuse,
That wealth, a husband, for their daughters choose. Fielding. | 11 |
| Great wealth and content seldom live together. | 12 |
| Great wealth, great care. Dutch. | 13 |
| Great wealth makes us neither more wise nor more healthy. | 14 |
| I wot well how the world wags; he is most loved who has most bags. | 15 |
| If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as of getting. Franklin. | 16 |
Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates and men decay. Goldsmith. | 17 |
| Of lawful wealth the devil takes the half; of unlawful the whole and the owner too. Turkish. | 18 |
| One man’s wealth is often many men’s ruin. Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine. | 19 |
| Real wealth consists not in having but in not wanting. | 20 |
| Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity, usually dwell together. Latin. | 21 |
| The greatest wealth is contentment with a little. | 22 |
The loss of wealth is loss of dirt,
All sages in all times assert,
The happiest man’s without a shirt. John Haywood. | 23 |
| The lust of wealth can never bear delay. Juvenal. | 24 |
| The secret of wealth lies in the letters S A V E. | 25 |
| The truest wealth is that of the understanding. | 26 |
| The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth. Greek. | 27 |
| Wealth and content do not always live together. | 28 |
| Wealth and honors can never cure a wounded conscience. | 29 |
| Wealth breeds a pleurisy, ambition a fever, liberty a vertigo, and poverty is a dead palsy. Gaelic. | 30 |
| Wealth conquered Rome after Rome had conquered the world. Petrarch. | 31 |
| Wealth is best known by want. | 32 |
| Wealth is liberty and liberty is a blessing fittest for a philosopher. Swift. | 33 |
| Wealth is not his who makes it but his who enjoys it. Italian. | 34 |
| Wealth is stepmother to virtue. German. | 35 |
| Wealth is timid. | 36 |
| Wealth like an index reveals the character of men. Latin. | 37 |
| Wealth like rheum falls upon the weakest parts. | 38 |
| Wealth maketh many friends. Bible. | 39 |
| Wealth maketh worship. | 40 |
When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be
To wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. Denham. | 41 |
| Where there is wealth friends abound. | 42 |
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