Wealth and poverty
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 4 anchored passages
wealth · poverty · al-faqr · al-ghinā · land · moderate circumstances · money · poor · prosperity · rich
spoken of as
1 expressionPoverty and wealth1 mention
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq (Arabic)
Whoever is moderate in wealth and in poverty has made himself ready for the calamities of the age.
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Want and abundance, systematically transposed by the maxims from money to intellect and desire.
Whoever is moderate in wealth and in poverty has made himself ready for the calamities of the age.
Antidosis
Material condition and suspected wealth as causes of envy, burdens, prejudice, and legal danger.
But to the others I must address myself in reply to the false charge of Lysimachus that I am possessed of enormous wealth, lest this statement, if credited, impose upon me greater public burdens than I could bear.
and yet, although he had so great an advantage toward laying up more wealth than any other man, he left at his death only a thousand staters.
For, when I was a boy, wealth was regarded as a thing so secure as well as admirable that almost every one affected to own more property than he actually possessed, because he wanted to enjoy the standing which it gave.
Symposium
Material wealth is repeatedly redefined through wit, poverty, self-sufficiency, and love of one's child.
When Callias saw this, Do you realize, Lycon, said he, that you are the richest man in the world?
Why, are you blind to the fact that you would not part with your son for the wealth of the Great King?
and it is kept safe without the necessity of a guard, and grows sturdier by neglect!