For the pagan world,
a man’s richness indicates his glory and importance; in a truly Christian
world, the great wealth of a man is an indication of his weakness and lies.
People are so involved in their material interests that
when they look at the manifestations of the human soul, and at pure
relationships between people, they look at them from the point of view of how
to improve their material well-being. Respectability is often measured by one’s
wealth, and not by his real inner spiritual value.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The possession of
great wealth is a school of pride, cruelty, self-admiration, and dissipation.
The lack of sensitivity among rich people is not as cruel
as their compassion.
— Jean Jacques Rousseau
You should not
respect poor people too much, but you should take pity an them. A rich person
should not be proud of his wealth; he should be ashamed of it.
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