A Quote by Epicurus

The acquisition of riches has been for many men, not an end, but a change, of troubles.

Epicurus

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Epicurus
Greek - Philosopher
341 BC - 270 BC

The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

Seneca the Younger

For many men, the acquisition of wealth does not end their troubles, it only changes them.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

To have acquired wealth is with many not to end but to change the nature of their troubles.

Publilius Syrus

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

Leonardo da Vinci

Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles.

J. D. Salinger

Men living in democratic times have many passions, but most of their passions either end in the love of riches, or proceed from it.

Alexis de Tocqueville

If only mortals would learn how great it is to possess divine grace, how beautiful, how noble, how precious. How many riches it hides within itself, how many joys and delights! No one would complain about his cross or about troubles that may happen to him, if he would come to know the scales on which they are weighed when they are distributed to men.

Rose of Lima

In a culture where the possibility of wealth and the acquisition of things is so defining of success, we end up pursuing things that, even if we are successful, can never deliver what we envisioned they would. The reason riches become such a snare is because we end up evaluating life in mercenary terms and being seen by others in such terms, and life is just not so.

Ravi Zacharias

Learning is more than the acquisition of the ability to think; it is the acquisition of many specialized abilities for thinking about a variety of things.

Lev S. Vygotsky

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Solon

The desire of knowledge, like the thirst of riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

Laurence Sterne

For often evil men are rich, and good men poor; But we will not exchange with them Our virtue for their wealth since one abides always, While riches change their owners every day.

Solon

Don't give your sons money. Give them horses. Many a good son has been ruined through the acquisition of money but no good son has been ruined through the acquisition of horses. Unless they fell and broke their neck, which when taken at the gallop is a very good death to die.