There is something about prosperity that brings out the worst in some people.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Prosperity has brought complications. Our lives are busier, faster, more stressful. They're nostalgic for a simpler, slower time.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; adversity not without many comforts and hopes.
That some are poorer than others, ever was and ever will be: And that many are naturally querulous and envious, is an Evil as old as the World.
The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
A great philosopher has stated that the worst evil of poverty is, that it makes folks ridiculous; by which, I hope, he only means that, as in the above case, it places them in incongruous positions.
Prosperity isn't something that squirts out of rich people.
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.