When wealth is centralized the people are dispersed; when wealth is distributed the people are brought together.
财聚则民散,财散则民聚。
——Confucius
——孔子
If the search of riches were sure to be successful, though I shall become a groom with whip in hand to get them, I would do So.
富贵如可求,虽执鞭之士吾亦为之。
——Confucius
——孔子
Wealth maketh many friends.
财富使朋友增多。
——Old Testament
——《旧约全书》
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
骆驼穿过针的眼,比财主进上帝的国还容易呢。
——New Testament
——《新约全书》
No wealth can satisfy the covetous desire of wealth.
财富不会满足贪财者的欲望。
——Jeremy Taylor
——杰里米·泰勒
Wealth may be an excellent thing, for it means power, it means leisure, it means liberty.
财富也许是件美好的东西,因为它意味着权力、空闲和自由。
——James Lowell
——詹姆斯·罗威尔
Wealth unused might as well not exist.
没有使用的财富等于不存在。
——Aesop
——伊索
Without the rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
如果没有一颗富裕的心,财富也会成为丑恶的乞丐。
——Emerson
——爱默生
Riches serve a wise man but commands a fool.
财富为智者服务,但它指挥穷人。
——Emerson
——爱默生
Not possession, but use, is the only riches.
致富之道不在于所有,而在于使用。
——Thomas Fuller
——托马斯·富勒
When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.
富人发动战争,穷人为之送命。
——Unknown
——佚名
Pearls around the neck——stones upon the heart.
珠玉满颈项,铁石是心肠。
——Yiddish Proverb
——犹太谚语
If thou art rich, thou art poor;
For, like an ass whose back with ingots bows,
Thou hear’st thy heavy riches but a journey,
And death unloads thee.
你即使富有,也和穷苦无异,
因为你正像一头不胜重负的驴子,
背上驮载着金块在旅途上跋涉,
直等到死来替你卸下负荷。
——Shakespeare
——莎士比亚
It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impolence of wealth.
只有当着富人生病时,他才完全感到财富的无能为力。
——Charles Colton
——查理·科登
The concentration of wealth is made inevitable by the natural inequality of men.
财富的集中不可避免地导致人类天然的不平等。
——Will Durant
——威尔·杜兰特
A great fortune is a great servitude.
巨大的财富是巨大的奴役。
——Seneca
——塞涅卡
He is richest who is content with least, for content is the wealth of nature.
少量即可满足的人是最富有者,因为满足是自然的财富。
——Socrates
——苏格拉底
The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, ——industry and frugality.
致富之道像上市场一样的简单,它主要靠勤俭两字。
——Benjamin Franklin
——本杰明·富兰克林
Ill—gotten wealth never porsperous.
不义之财绝不昌达。
——Proverb
——谚语
The wealth of the mind is the only true wealth.
思想的富裕才是真正的富裕。
——Greek Proverb
——希腊谚语
Ill—gotten, ill spent.
不义之财胡乱花去。
——French Proverb
——法国谚语