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.
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Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
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The fortune which nobody sees makes a person happy and unenvied.
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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.
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Money is a good servant, a dangerous master.
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Francis Bacon

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