英语名人名言：Wealth 财富

　　Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

　　Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

　　If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting.

　　Benjamin Franklin (1706 - 1790)

　　An unhurried sense of time is in itself a form of wealth.

　　Bonnie Friedman, in New York Times

　　Prefer loss to the wealth of dishonest gain; the former vexes1 you for a time; the latter will bring you lasting2 remorse3.

　　Chilo

　　Maybe it would be better to acknowledge, like the Greeks, that a lot of behavior we call addiction4 is really a love of pleasure that carries the force of habit. We become addicted5 mostly because of the central issue in all self-control problems, which is the disproportionate value we place on short-term rewards.

　　Daniel Akst, We Have Met the Enemy: Self-Control in an Age of Excess, 2011

　　Anyone may have diamonds: an heirloom is an ornament6 of quite a different kind.

　　Elizabeth Aston, Mr. Darcy's Daughters, 2003

　　It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness; poverty and wealth have both failed.

　　Kin7 Hubbard (1868 - 1930)

　　Though I am grateful for the blessings8 of wealth, it hasn't changed who I am. My feet are still on the ground. I'm just wearing better shoes.

　　Oprah Winfrey (1954 - ), O Magazine

　　Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.

　　Plato (427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

　　Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude9 with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth.

　　Rex Stout10 (1886 - 1975)

　　It is the sign of a weak mind to be unable to bear wealth.

　　Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

　　Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool.

　　Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)

　　Be charitable before wealth makes thee covetous11.

　　Sir Thomas Browne (1605 - 1682)

　　Wisdom outweighs12 any wealth.

　　Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone

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