Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.
There are plenty of miserable millionaires all over the place.
The person who does not know how to live while they are making a living is a poorer person after their wealth is won than when they started.
Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures.
Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.
Our main task is not to see that people of great wealth add to it, but that those without much money have a greater chance to earn some.
Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
The only thing wealth does for some people is to make them worry about losing it.
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