that fucking "disease of more." Here's Dilbert guy sitting in a mansion (a stupid mansion, but a mansion all the same) and he's daydreaming about how he could have another pile of money. He already has that tacky house and plenty leftover and he still isn't satisfied.
Vana Parva, Sub-parva 36, sect. 178; vol. 2
Be he ever so wise and strong, wealth confounds a man. In my view, anyone living in comfort fails to reason.
Udyoga Parva, Sub-parva 51, sect. 34; vol. 3
The poor always eat better: hunger sweetens their dishes, and that is rare among the rich. It is generally found in the world that the rich have no appetite, but the poor, O Indra of kings, digest even wood.
Ecclesiastes 4:4-6
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.
The Tao Te Ching, Chapter 9
Those who overly pride wealth is like the overflowing water which shall cause damages. It is better to restrain early.
Those who are not content with fame is like polishing the edge of a knife.
The sharper it gets, the easier it is to break.
Wealth and treasures are but illusions that one cannot possess.
Those who are arrogant of their wealth and fame shall invite blame upon oneself.
The nature Tao teaches one to retreat after one’s success and not to hold on to the credit.
Aristotle, Politics.
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.
Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Matthew 19:24
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Luke 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.