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Riches: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Minuti Semper et infirmi est animi exiguique voluptas Ultio. Revenge is always the weak pleasure of a little and narrow mind.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. XIII. 189.

Sæpe intereunt aliis meditantes necem. Those who plot the destruction of others often fall themselves.— PHÆDRUS — Fabula. Appendix.

VI. 11. Inhumanum verbum est ultio. Revenge is an inhuman word.— SENECA — De Ira. II. 31.

Malevolus animus abditos dentes habet. The malevolent have hidden teeth.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Odia in longum jaciens, quæ reconderet, auctaque promeret. Laying aside his resentment, he stores it up to bring it forward with increased bitterness.— TACITUS — Annales. I. 69.

Crescentem sequitur cura pecuniam Majorumque fames. Increasing wealth is attended by care and by the desire of greater increase.— HORACE — Carmina. III. 16. 17.

Et genus et virtus, nisi cum re, vilior algâ est. Noble descent and worth, unless united with wealth, are esteemed no more than seaweed.— HORACE — Satiræ. II. 5. 8.

Imperat aut servit collecta pecunia cuique. Riches either serve or govern the possessor.— HORACE — Epistolæ. I. 10. 47.

Omnis enim res, Virtus, fama, decus, divina, humanaque pulchris Divitiis parent. For everything divine and human, virtue, fame, and honor, now obey the alluring influence of riches.— HORACE — Satiræ. II. 3. 94.

Dives fieri qui vult Et cito vult fieri. He who wishes to become rich wishes to become so immediately. S.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. XIV. 176.

Misera est magni custodia census. The care of a large estate is an unpleasant thing.— JUVENAL — Satira. XIV. 304.

Rarus enim ferme sensus communis in illâ Fortuna. Common sense among men of fortune is rare.— JUVENAL — Satiræ. VIII. 73.

Facile est momento quo quis velit, cedere possessione magnæ fortunæ; facere et parare eam, difficile atque arduum est. It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous.— LIVY — Annales. XXIV. 22.

Opum furiata cupido. The ungovernable passion for wealth. C.— OVID — Fasti. I. 211.

Opes invisæ merito sunt forti viro, Quia dives arca veram laudem intercipit. Riches are deservedly despised by a man of honor, because a well-stored chest intercepts the truth.— PHEDRUS — Fabulæ. IV. 12. 1.

Repente dives nemo factus est bonus. No good man ever became suddenly rich.— SYRUS — Maxims.

Ich heisse Der reichste Mann in der getauften Welt; Die Sonne geht in meinem Staat nicht unter. I am called the richest man in Christendom. The sun never sets on my dominions.— SCHILLER — Don Carlos. I. 6. 60.

Les rivières sont des chemins qui marchent et qui portent où l'on veut aller. Rivers are roads that move and carry us whither we wish to go.— PASCAL — Pensées. VII. 38.