Wealth-Poverty

Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world the lucky person passes for a genius. (Euripides)

A great fortune is a great slavery. (Seneca)

For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. (John W Gardner)

Wealth...and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent. (Plato)

Immoderate power, like other intemperance, leaves the progeny weaker and weaker, until Nature, as in compassion, covers it with her mantle and it is seen no more. (Walter Savage Landor)