Money Quotes

Wealth, poverty, and everything the ledger can and can't measure.

13074 quotes

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"Ambition and avarice are the twin diseases of the soul."
Michel de Montaigne
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"The man who loves money more than life has already chosen death."
Petronius
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"Money is a means to freedom, not the destination itself."
Petronius
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"Money is not everything, but it is something."
Apuleius
"Money reveals character more truly than any amount of conversation."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Money is petrified possibility; use it wisely."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"The poor go to bed supperless."
Juvenal
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"The rich man's dog eats meat, while the poor man's dog eats bones."
Juvenal
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"No passion is stronger than the love of money."
Juvenal
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"Money was not made to be hoarded, but to be used."
Juvenal
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"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least."
Plutarch
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"Love of money is the root of all vice."
Plutarch
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"Wealth, it is a commodity that tends to multiply."
Plutarch
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"Money is a tool for the wise and a master for the foolish."
Apuleius
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"Money is the measure of civilization's corruption."
Apuleius
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"The greatest wealth is a poor man's contentment."
Petronius
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"Money can buy comfort but not contentment; pleasure but not joy."
Petronius
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"Money is congealed energy; use it wisely or it will use you."
Porphyry
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"Money is frozen time; spend yours on what truly matters."
Porphyry
"The true wealth is a contented mind."
Diogenes Laërtius
"Money is useful only insofar as it purchases freedom."
Diogenes Laërtius
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"The poor man is everywhere a stranger."
Juvenal
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"Money you possess is the instrument of freedom; money that possesses you is the instrument of slavery."
Juvenal
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"It is not he that has little, but he that craves more, that is poor."
Plutarch
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"It is not for the benefit of the creditors that the wise preserve credit."
Plutarch
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"Debt is a terrible school, but few are graduated."
Plutarch
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"Money is the necessary evil of a civilized world."
Apuleius
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"The vulgar crowd measures happiness by the abundance of possessions."
Petronius
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"The merchant values the price of all things and the worth of none."
Petronius
"The greatest wealth is poverty of desires."
Diogenes Laërtius