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False riches, consisting of money, houses and lands, acquired by selfish means at cost to others and thereafter used selfishly, are almost always used for the oppression of other persons.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Riches get their value from the mind of the possessor; they are blessings to those who know how to use them, and curses to those who do not.

— Terence

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

— Charles Caleb Colton

We regard wealth as something to be properly used, rather than as something to boast about. As for poverty, no one need be ashamed to admit it: the real shame is in not taking practical measures to escape from it.

— Pericles

To despise riches, may, indeed, be philosophic, but to dispense them worthily, must surely be more beneficial to mankind.

— Fanny Burney

Riches are not forbidden, but the pride of them is.

— John Chrysostom

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

— Muhammad Ali

All riches have their origin in mind. Wealth is in ideas - not money.

— Robert Collier

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

— W. Somerset Maugham

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

— Oscar Wilde

✗Opposing Perspectives

All wealth consists of desirable things; that is, things which satisfy human wants directly or indirectly: but not all desirable things are reckoned as wealth.

— Alfred Marshall