“The possession of wealth confers honor; it is an invidious distinction.”

“Не does not possess wealth that allows it to possess him.”

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) American author, printer, political theorist, politician, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, …

“Whenever you honor the honorable, you possess them. Whenever you honor the ignoble, they rebel.”

Al-Mutanabbi (915–965) Arabic poet from the Abbasid era

“The lust of lucre has so totally seized upon mankind, that their wealth seems rather to possess them, than they to possess their wealth.”
Ea invasit homines habendi cupido, ut possideri magis quam possidere videantur.

Pliny the Younger (61–113) Roman writer

“A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.”

Richard Steele (1672–1729) British politician

“Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.”

Democritus Ancient Greek philosopher, pupil of Leucippus, founder of the atomic theory

“You both should feel honored.”
“Right, very honored,” I said. “Always wanted to be possessed!”

Rick Riordan book The Red Pyramid

“Truth and Virtue do not necessarily belong to wealth and Power and Distinctions of Big Mansions.”

Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) Indian religious, social, and educational reformer, and humanitarian

“The power of perpetuating our property in our families is one of the most valuable and interesting circumstances belonging to it, and that which tends most to the perpetuation of society itself. It makes our weakness subservient to our virtue; it grafts benevolence even upon avarice. The possession of family wealth and of the distinction which attends hereditary possessions (as most concerned in it,) are the natural securities for this transmission.”

Edmund Burke book Reflections on the Revolution in France

“Hodgson, a man of steadfast integrity and strong personality, possessed true distinction.”

Ralph Hodgson (1871–1962) British writer