Francis Bacon Quotes About Wealth

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  • Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.

    Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.352
  • Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

    Francis Bacon (1861). “Literary and Professional Works”, p.460
  • The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.

  • If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

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  • Of great wealth there is no real use, except in its distribution, the rest is just conceit.

  • Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.

    "De Dignitate et Augmentis Scientiarum". Book by Francis Bacon, Book Six, 1623.
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Francis Bacon

  • Born: January 22, 1561
  • Died: April 9, 1626
  • Occupation: Former Lord Chancellor