Wealth Quotes

Adjust your desires to what you can currently afford. Only increase them when you have more resources.

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.

All men agree that a just distribution must be according to merit in some sense; they do not all specify the same sort of merit, but democrats identify it with freemen, supporters of oligarchy with wealth (or noble birth), and... ...

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

Those who merely possess the goods of fortune may be haughty and insolent; . . . they try to imitate the great-souled man without being really like him, and only copy him in what they can, reproducing his contempt for... ...

Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.

All paid jobs can take over and lower the quality of the mind.

The character which results from wealth is that of a prosperous fool.

Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse... ...