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- Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.
- Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)
- An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.
- Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times
- Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting remorse.
- Chilo
- Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.
- Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011
- Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament of quite a different kind.
- Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003
- It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- Though I am grateful for the blessings of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.
- Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine
- Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
- Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic
- Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
- Rex Stout (1886 - 1975)
- It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
- Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous.
- Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)
- Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone
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