“[The rich] are indeed rather possessed by their money than possessors.”

“The use of riches is better than their possession.”

“He preferred an honest man that wooed his daughter, before a rich man. "I would rather," said Themistocles, "have a man that wants money than money that wants a man."”

“There are two ways to live, he decided. You can be rich, or you can deliberately refuse to be rich. You can possess money, or you can despise money; the one fatal thing is to worship money and fail to get it.”

“The poor, by thinking unceasingly of money, reach the point of losing the spiritual advantages of non-possession, thereby sinking as low as the rich.”

“Nothing is more portable than rich people and their money”

“You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.”

“Sir, money, money, the most charming of all things; money, which will say more in one moment than the most elegant lover can in years. Perhaps you will say a man is not young; I answer he is rich. He is not genteel, handsome, witty, brave, good-humoured, but he is rich, rich, rich, rich, rich — that one word contradicts everything you can say against him.”

“Better to be poor in possessions rather than in thoughts and your way of reasoning.”