“Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.”

“Ah woe is me, through all my days
Wisdom and wealth I both have got,
And fame and name and great men’s praise;
But Love, ah! Love I have it not.”

Henry Cuyler Bunner (1855–1896) American writer

“What a foolish thing it is to be governed by a desire for fame and profit and to fret away one's whole life without a moment of peace. Great wealth is no guarantee of security. Wealth, in fact, tends to attract calamities and disaster.”

Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1350) japanese writer

“Without wisdom, you will not peacefully enjoy this wealth in the world. You will have no idea what to do with it in the first place.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author

“Many first possess wealth, and are then possessed by it.”

Ludwig Klages (1872–1956) German psychologist and philosopher

“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, …

“Wisdom outweighs any wealth.”

Sophocles (-496–-406 BC) ancient Greek tragedian

“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

“The choice of life is not between fame and fortune, nor wealth and poverty, but between good and evil.”

Boyd K. Packer (1924–2015) American Mormon leader

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

Thorstein Veblen book The Theory of the Leisure Class