Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.
The quantity of a man's wealth will not last long if his generous nature is not balanced with the size of his property.
Fortunes are made, and disappear, over the lifetime of a single generation. Today, a person in essence takes his wealth from society just for the duration of his or her lifetime. The next generation has to create it anew.
The greatness of a man is not in how much wealth he acquires, but in his integrity and his ability to affect those around him positively.
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make his fortune no matter where he started.
More men are ruined by underestimating the value of money than by overestimating it. Let us, then, abandon the affectation of despising money, and frankly own its value.
Men become wise just as they become rich, more by what they save than by what they receive.
The true nature of all wealth is temporary; those who have wealth must here and now do good deeds that will live for a long time.
There is no real wealth but the labor of man.