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Infinite riches in a little room.

You often ask me, Priscus, what sort of person I should be, if I were to become suddenly rich and powerful. Who can determine what would be his future conduct? Tell me, if you were to become a lion, what sort of a lion would you be?

The little sister of the Poor . . . . The Poor, and their concerns, she has Monopolized, because of which It falls to me to labor as A Little Brother of the Rich.

Those who we strive to benefit Dear to our hearts soon grow to be; I love my Rich, and I admit That they are very good to me. Succor the poor, my sisters,--I While heaven shall still vouchsafe me health Will strive to share and mollify The trials of abounding wealth.

But wealth is a great means of refinement; and it is a security for gentleness, since it removes disturbing anxieties. - Ik Marvel ,

Let none admire That riches grow in hell; that soil may best Deserve the precious bane.

I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice.

The ungovernable passion for wealth.

Riches, the incentives to evil, are dug out of the earth.

Embarrassment of riches.

Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place.

What riches give us let us then inquire: Meat, fire, and clothes. What more? Meat, clothes, and fire. Is this too little?

Wealth is the product of man's capacity to think.

All gold and silver rather turn to dirt, An 'tis no better reckoned but of these Who worship dirty gods.

If thou art rich, thou'rt poor, For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows, Thou bear'st thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told; Many a man his life hath sold; But my outside to behold.

O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year.

Through life's dark road his sordid way he wends, An incarnation of fat dividends.