Riches

Famous quotes containing the word riches:

“Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men’s adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)

“This one fact the world hates; that the soul becomes; for that forever degrades the past, turns all riches to poverty, all reputation to a shame, confounds the saint with the rogue, shoves Jesus and Judas equally aside.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

“Great riches come from heaven; small riches come from diligence.”
—Chinese proverb.