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He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.

— Jeremy Taylor

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

— Richard Burton

Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.

— Benjamin Franklin

Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise.

— Christopher Columbus

Many speak the truth when they say that they despise riches, but they mean the riches possessed by others.

— Charles Caleb Colton

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

— Christopher Columbus

✗Opposing Perspectives

He that is rich is wise.

— Daniel Defoe

Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

— Epictetus

He is the richest man who enriches his country most; in whom the people feel richest and proudest; who gives himself with his money; who opens the doors of opportunity widest to those about him; who is ears to the deaf, eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

— Orison Swett Marden