Horace

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor’s wall is ablaze.

Let your character be kept up the very end, just as it began, and so be consistent.

If matters go badly now, they will not always be so.

Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life.

Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents, which in prosperous circumstances would have lain dormant.

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.

The waste of money cures itself, for soon there is no more to waste.

I have never believed that prosperity is bad or something to be shunned.

There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.

Steve Jobs didn’t give a shit about money, and I do give a shit about money. I wanted to have a lot of money. I thought it would change my life, which it did, but not in the ways I expected.

Money is like manure. You have to spread it around or it smells.

We are not the sum of our possessions.

The best thing I know about me, is that I’m rich

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction!

I don’t like money, actually, but it quiets my nerves.

Money gives me the creeps and mildly embarrasses me. I get paid too much anyway.

What is the robbing of a bank compared to the FOUNDING of a bank?

A fool and her money are soon courted.

A dollar picked up in the road is more satisfaction to us than the 99 which we had to work for, and the money won at Faro or in the stock market snuggles into our hearts in the same way.

Philanthropic efforts are among the best rewards you can have for a life well lived.

It is easier to ask for money when you don’t need the money.