“I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt”
Ben Hecht
“Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent”
Plato
“No man can tell whether he is rich or poor by turning to his ledger. It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich or poor according to what he is, not according to what he has.”
Henry Ward Beecher
“A man once asked Diogenes what was the proper time for supper, and he made answer, "If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can”
Diogenes
“The poor man wishes to conceal his poverty, and the rich man his wealth: the former fears lest he be despised, the latter lest he be plundered.”
Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
“The world of man is divided as man himself established and establish. Should it be war or peace, poverty or wealth is entirely up to man for as long as Nature is still a land, an ocean, and a sky that ensures life.”
Mariana Fulger
“Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright”
Benjamin Franklin
