It is far better for the profits of our purse to be taken from us than to be robbed of the riches of our minds and souls.

The use of riches is better than their possession.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul Wisdom is better than silver and gold.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears, and sighs, and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that!

Let me attain no envied wealth, let me not plunder cities, neither be taken in turn, and face life in the power of another.

Freedom is more precious than the gift that makes us lose it.

Wealth is not necessarily accumulated at the expense of public interest and the needy.

We must mention the higher, nobler wealth, which does not belong to all, but to truly noble and divinely gifted men. This wealth is bestowed by wisdom through the doctrines and principles of ethic, logic and physic, and from these spring the virtues, which rid the soul of its proneness to extravagance, and engender the love of contentment and frugality, which will assimilate it to God. For God has no wants, He needs nothing, being in Himself all-sufficient to Himself, while the fool has many wants, ever thirsting for what is not there, longing to gratify his greedy and insatiable desire, which he fans into a blaze like a fire and brings both great and small within its reach. But the man of worth has few wants, standing midway between mortality and immortality.

It is better to live rich, than to die rich.

True wealth is of the heart, not of the purse.

...but if virtue were the wealth that is held in high esteem, I would not envy the fortunes of others or weep for my own misfortunes.

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

Freedom is more precious than any gifts for which you may be tempted to give it up.

Believe that many precepts are better than much wealth; for wealth quickly fails us, but precepts abide through all time; for wisdom alone of all possessions is imperishable. Do not hesitate to travel a long road to those who profess to offer some useful instruction; for it were a shame, when merchants cross vast seas in order to increase their store of wealth, that the young should not endure even journeys by land to improve their understanding.