Wealth

And he was compelled to supplicate even his brother, that he should give up his daughter to be slaughtered at Aulis.

For neither would they receive, in all likelihood, such guests, satraps or kings, unless very temperate and good ones, to whom nothing is lacking that comes with friendship.

For surely it did not turn out for the better for Menelaus that he was able to receive the wealthiest guest from Asia, and that no one else in Sparta was competent to entertain the son of King Priam.

And a similar uncertainty surrounds the conception of the Good, because it frequently occurs that good things have harmful consequences:

The Life of Money-making is a constrained kind of life, and clearly wealth is not the Good we are in search of, for it is only good as being useful, a means to something else.

Ordinary people identify it with some obvious and visible good, such as pleasure or wealth or honor—some say one thing and some another, indeed very often the same man says different things at different times:

"No limit of wealth lies revealed for men.

Yet, I think, it is fitting neither to long for wealth when it is absent, nor, when it is present, to take pride in possessing it rather than in knowing how to dispose of it well.

" And I admire too the contempt of Diogenes for all human things together—he who showed himself richer even than the Great King, by needing fewer things than that king for his life.

By nature He declares unjust every possession which a man holds for himself as his own, and does not lay out in common for those in need;

A man buys incorruption with money, and, giving the perishing things of the world, receives in exchange an eternal abode of these things in the heavens.

Or what is even more free from reproach—if he was straightway settled by God, who apportions fortune, into a household of such men, and into a family abounding in money and prevailing in wealth?

once they possessed greater wealth than any other Hellenic people, but they spent it all for love of honor;

To dedicate those buildings they did not tithe themselves, nor fulfil the imprecations of their enemies by doubling the income-tax, nor was their policy ever guided by such advisers as you.

that drinking-cups and censers, if very numerous, attach to their owners a sort of reputation for wealth, but that, if a man takes pride in trifles, instead of winning some honor by them, he is disdained as a man of vulgar tastes.

wealth will make a house great, and reverend princes seated in assembly are a goodly sight for the folk to see.

Open of yourselves, you doors, for mighty Wealth will enter in, and with Wealth comes jolly Mirth and gentle Peace.

Queen Earth, all bounteous giver of honey-hearted wealth, how kindly, it seems, you are to some, and how intractable and rough for those with whom you are angry.

and that I have received from them and am now receiving enormous sums of money.

while my resources, which this fellow has exaggerated, have all come to me from abroad.

But you have heard also from my accuser that I have received many great presents from Nicocles, the king of the Salaminians.

Consider that the making of money unjustly will produce, not wealth, but danger.

Consider that you will pass on to your children the greatest and surest wealth if you can leave them my good will.

Keep your hands off the possessions of others in order that you may be more secure in the possession of your own estates.

Happiness itself is wealth.

Wealth is any thing, that is, or can be made, valuable to man, or available for his use.

So the thought, that guides the hand in labor, is ever as clearly wealth, as is the hand itself;

Wealth is widely powerful, whenever a mortal man receives it, blended with pure excellence, from the hands of fortune, and takes it as a companion that makes many friends.

white, speckled, and black.

All actions are rooted in wealth;

The specific wealth of a Brāhmaṇa is known to be of three kinds:

Now, all valuable wealth is appropriated—belongs to somebody.

These latter have value, because by combining them with other kinds of wealth we obtain a product which is more valuable than the elements from which it is created.

Valuable wealth may be roughly divided into two classes—that which is directly or immediately useful (pleasure-giving), and that which is directly or mediately useful.

Not so, by Zeus, said the Sacian;

you may just stay at home with your wealth.

Cyrus is not of the sort to make money for himself;

your money, Critobulus, does not appear to resemble Callias’s.

for with this power mine I shall find my soul chock-full of riches.

Moreover, people used to vilify me, when I was wealthy, for consorting with Socrates;