I’m rich! I don’t mean money-wise. I mean that I have figured out how to never be around assholes at any time in my personal and professional life. That’s rich.
~ John Waters
Mara Bar Serapion on Wealth
Follow diligently learning rather than riches. For the greater are one’s possessions, the greater is the evil attendant upon them. For I have myself observed that, where a man’s goods are many, so also are the tribulations which happen to him; and, where luxuries are accumulated, there also do sorrows congregate; and, where riches are abundant, there is stored up the bitterness of many a year.
~ Mara Bar Serapion
Seneca on Malady
“It matters little whether you lay a sick man on a wooden or on a golden bed, for whithersoever he be moved he will carry his malady with him; so one need not care whether the diseased mind is bestowed upon riches or upon poverty. His malady goes with the man.”
~ Seneca
Cicero on Thrift
“Cannot people realise how large an income is thrift?”
~ Cicero
Cicero on Wealth
“Who is there who would wish to be surrounded by all the riches in the world and enjoy every abundance in life and yet not love or be loved by anyone?”
~ Cicero
Paul Polak on Wealth
“But, instead of trying to become a Bill Gates or a Donald Trump, I came to the realization that, beyond having enough money to cover my basic living expenses, the marginal value of accumulating more wealth was not really useful,”
~ Paul Polak / NYT, 20th October, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/20/health/paul-polak-dies.html
Seneca on Possessions
“At last, then, away with all these treacherous goods! They look better to those who hope for them than to those who have attained them.”
~ Seneca / Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium
Seneca on Possessions
“Again, let us possess nothing that can be snatched from us to the great profit of a plotting foe. Let there be as little booty as possible on your person.”
~ Seneca / Epistulae Morales AD Lucilium
David Hume on Advantages
No advantages in this world are pure and unmixed.
~ David Hume
Benjamin Franklin on Contentment
He that is rich need not live sparingly, and he that can live sparingly, need not be rich.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin on Wealth
Great estates may venture more; little boats must keep near shore.
~ Benjamin Franklin