"With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money"
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"Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism."
"This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion."
"Man cannot be satisfied by wealth. Man cannot go beyond his nature, no more than you can jump out of your body."
"Having money is just the best thing in the world."
"This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery."
"They will envy you for your success, your wealth, for your intelligence, for your looks, for your status - but rarely for your wisdom."
"Fortunately there is more wealth in the world than there was at the time of the global economic crisis of 1929 - Chinese, Indian, Arab and Russian."
"The stakes in conflict do not change. Battle determines who will control the wealth or its equivalent."
"There is no such thing as Success....That a thing is successful merely means that it is; a millionaire is successful in being a millionaire and a donkey in being a donkey."
"Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us."
". . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . ."
"My life is more to me than all the wealth of Ilius"
"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."
"Scatter abroad what you have already amassed rather than pile up new wealth."
"A sense of contentment is crucial to being happy. Physical health, material wealth and friends contribute to this, but contentment governs our relations with them all."
"Knowledge is the only kind of wealth that multiplies when you give it away."
"Wealth is an engine that can be used for power, if you are an engineer; but to be tied to the fly wheel of an engine is rather a misfortune."
"Ill-gotten wealth is never stable."
"Wealth unused might as well not exist."