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Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Oscar Wilde

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Benjamin Disraeli

Riches don't make a man rich, they only make him busier.

Christopher Columbus

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

For men who had easily endured hardship, danger and difficult uncertainty, leisure and riches, though in some ways desirable, proved burdensome and a source of grief.

Sallust

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail; mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Sallust

He who multiplies riches multiplies cares.

Benjamin Franklin

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Greeley

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.

Confucius

Riches cover a multitude of woes.

Menander

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches.

Cicero

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Akhenaton

A learned man has always riches in himself.

Phaedrus

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.

Sir Wilfred Grenfell

It's kind of an embarrassment of riches there. This year, we asked like 15 people, and got 14 ... For the artists attending, it's very valuable to listen to these established artists talk about their careers.

Roland Swenson

Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life.

Henry Ward Beecher

If you spend less than what you earn, you're on the path to building wealth, and riches will be within reach.

Michael Fluker

Riches may enable us to confer favours, but to confer them with propriety and grace requires a something that riches cannot give.

Charles Caleb Colton

We all enjoy the riches of L.A., and we all need to make a commitment to helping others.

Leeza Gibbons

I have no riches but my thoughts, yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sarah J. Hale

The quest for riches darkens the sense of right and wrong.

Antiphanes

Our sales are going up because we're a niche label. We continue to explore and exploit all the riches available to us.

Alison Brown

He loved to get into the Word and dig in its vast riches.

Greg Johnston

We do not want riches, we want peace and love.

Red Cloud

There is no stronger craving in the world than that of the rich for titles, except that of the titled for riches.

Hesketh Pearson

In early childhood you may lay the foundation of poverty or riches, industry or idleness, good or evil, by the habits to which you train your children. Teach them right habits then, and their future life is safe.

Lydia Sigourney

A scam carried out by our state government is no less a scam. And ads from the North Carolina Lottery Commission which will no doubt entice people to fork over hard-earned cash on empty promises of instant riches would conflict with our efforts to give readers honest and accurate information.

Bart Adams

The riches of life, the love and joy and exhilaration of life can be found only with an upward look. This is an exciting world. It's cram-packed with opportunity. Great moments wait around every corner.

Richard M. Devos

Riches can be stolen-not richness.

Rushi Prabhakar

Fame and riches are fleeting. Stupidity is eternal.

Don Williams, Jr

Riches do not delight us so much with their possession, as torment us with their loss.

Dick Gregory

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdom of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois de Fenelon

You cannot hold on to anything good. You must be continually giving - and getting. You cannot hold on to your seed. You must sow it - and reap anew. You cannot hold on to riches. You must use them and get other riches in return.

Robert Collier

There's such a vast range of riches in a small, pretty easily navigated space. That's definitely what attracts me to cities.

Don George

There's a lot of continuity here. It's an embarrassment of riches.

Dick Wright

If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

If the riches of the Indies, or the crowns of all the kingdoms of Europe, were laid at my feet in exchange for my love of reading, I would spurn them all.

Francois Fenelon

[Autobiographies] are all the same -- it's always rags-to-riches or I-slept-with-so-and-so. Damned if I'm going to say that.

Deborah Kerr

We've been given this embarrassment of riches where the market seems to want to go up every day, regardless of the news.

Ram Kolluri

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

Rainer Maria Rilke

To have what we want is riches, but to be able to do without is power.

George MacDonald

I offer all the riches I've made out of the panchayat-enforced gang-rape to the president in return for justice.

Mukhtar Mai

People want riches; they need fulfillment.

Robert Conklin

There are men whom a happy disposition, a strong desire of glory and esteem, inspire with the same love for justice and virtue which men in general have for riches and honors....But the number of these men is so small that I only mention them in honor of humanity.

Claude Adrien Helvetius

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

Henry Fielding

Turkey is on a road that will lead much faster to its becoming a country suiting its potential and riches.

Ali Babacan

Riches and power are but gifts of blind fate, whereas goodness is the result of one's own merits.

Heloise

I care for riches, to make giftsTo friends, or lead a sick man back to healthWith ease and plenty. Else small aid is wealthFor daily gladness; once a man be doneWith hunger, rich and poor are all as one.

Euripides

My heart, as all of yours, breaks when it sees how the government is robbing the country of its riches, how they sell out our national interests.

Viktor Yushchenko

For riches certainly make themselves wings.

Bible

You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love?

Lech Walesa

She, I hate to say it, uses men to move herself up. It's kind of a rags to riches story, but she was not well-liked by the military or the aristocracy. It's like 'Cinderella,' only the ending is not happy.

Kerry Wilson

The giving of riches and honors to a wicked man is like giving strong wine to him that hath a fever.

Plutarch

Worldly riches are like nuts; many a tooth is broke in cracking them, but never is the stomach filled with eating them.

Rabbi Nachman

You can sell art, but (making it) gives you riches besides. Tap into that. That's a benefit.

Derrick Adams

There is a new generation of nouveaux riches (which) is growing, Indians are more international, there is more awareness of luxury - your way of life is what defines you. Before, they only spent money on material goods, now they are spending more on intangibles.

Ashish Chordia

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.

Rainer Maria Rilke

It's not a thing you can build up to slowly. It's either riches or poverty.

Charles Mitchell

I have no riches but my thoughts. Yet these are wealth enough for me.

Sara Teasdale

The riches of the game are in the thrills, not the money.

Ernie Banks

We seek riches, power and glory all in order to make them happy.

Emmanuel Petit