"Everyone asks if a man is rich,..." - Quote by Euripides

“Do not consider painful what is good for you.”

“Virtue proceeds through effort.”

“Happy the man who from the sea escapes the storm and finds harbor.”

“Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.”

“Everything that is printed and bound in a book contains some echo at least of the best that is in literature.”

“There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink.”

“People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.”

“If all men were rich, all men would be poor.”

“Prosperity is the best protector of principle.”