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Wealth

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. – Socrates.


Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. - Benjamin Franklin.


He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. – Socrates.


Human greatness does not lie in wealth or power, but in character and goodness. – Anne Frank.


If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it. – Socrates.


If you would be wealthy…think of saving as well as getting. - Benjamin Franklin.


Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural. – Aristotle.


The greatest wealth is to live content with little. - Plato.


The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else. – Aristotle.


Wars and revolutions and battles 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. – Socrates.


Wealth is well known to be a great comforter. - Plato.


Women and wine, game and deceit, Make the wealth small, and the wants great. - Benjamin Franklin.


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