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Riches are often abused, but never refused.

Proverbs and old sayings Danish about wealth

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth, man

Riches cause arrogance; poverty, meekness.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wealth, poverty

Riches abuse them who know not how to use them.

Proverbs and old sayings German about wealth, use

Riches and poverty do not leave each other.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, poverty

Riches fall not always to the lot of the most deserving.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, fall

Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold, So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, man

Riches have wings.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wealth

Riches bring care and fears.

Proverbs and old sayings Aromanian about wealth

If your brother is rich it doesn't mean you're rich.

Proverbs and old sayings West African about wealth

After a rich man gets rich, his next ambition is to get richer.

Proverbs and old sayings South American about ambition, wealth, americans, man

If you cannot become rich, be the neighbor of a rich man.

Proverbs and old sayings Armenian about wealth, man

The rich devour the poor, and the devil devours the rich and so both are devoured.

Proverbs and old sayings Dutch about wealth, devil

Be born rich, live parsimoniously and die rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth

A rich man is a learned man, a very rich man is astute.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, man

To be rich with bees and mares, is to be rich and have nothing.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about wealth, nothing

Not only that the rich man is rich, but he has such good checks too.

Proverbs and old sayings Yiddish about wealth, good, good luck, man

Nobel and rich are the Messinans, heads of the kingdom are the Palermitani, the Catanians have a contented heart, and in Cefalu they are rich with fish.

Proverbs and old sayings Sicilian about heads, wealth, heart

He that is not gallant at twenty, strong at thirty, rich at forty, or experienced at fifty, will never be gallant, strong, rich, or prudent.

Proverbs and old sayings Spanish about prudence, wealth

A snow year, a rich year.

Proverbs and old sayings English about wealth