Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
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Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Wealth does not bring goodness, but goodness brings wealth and every other blessing, both to the individual and to the state.
Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
contentment / luxury / Poverty / wealth
Could I climb the highest place in Athens, I would lift up my voice and proclaim, “Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth, and talk so little care of your children to whom you must one day relinquish all?
Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
battles / desires / revolutions / wars / wealth
Wealth, and poverty; the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
discontent / Poverty / wealth
All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth.