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)

“O, the fierce wretchedness that glory brings us!
Who would not wish to be from wealth exempt,
Since riches point to misery and contempt?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“We who didn’t inherit political power nor are made to acquire riches like nothing better than that which expands and solidifies the power of the spirit.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)