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

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, fall

How you come by it no one asks; but wealth you must have.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, contentment

Talent and poverty, wealth and stupidity generally dwell together.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about talent, stupidity, wealth, poverty

Nobility without wealth is more worthless than the seaweed which the tide has left.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth

It would make a man scratch where it doth not itch, To see a man live poor to die rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wealth, death, man

But now I was a rich man, three things have left me bare; dice, wine, and women, these three have made me poor.

Proverbs and old sayings Latin about wine, wealth, things, man

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

Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, man

If a rich man eats a snake, people call it wisdom; if a poor man does the same thing, people call it derangement.

Proverbs and old sayings Lebanese about people, wisdom, things, wealth, man

To the patient man will come all the riches of the world.

Proverbs and old sayings Liberian about wealth, world, man

It is better to be poor and live long than to be rich and die young.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, death

Do not boast about your wealth if you are a father.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth, contentment

Wealth is like hair in the nose: it hurts to be separated whether from a little or from a lot.

Proverbs and old sayings Malagasy about wealth

The law is not made for the rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Maltese about law, wealth

Better to be poor and honest than to be rich and lying.

Proverbs and old sayings about lie, wealth

A rich man without liberality is like a tree without fruit.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, man

Learning is fine clothes for the rich man, and riches for the poor man.

Proverbs and old sayings about wealth, clothes, man

Rich is he who has no debts, fortunate he who lives without handicap.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about wealth

Greed keeps men forever poor, even the abundance of this world will not make them rich.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about greed, wealth, world, man

The supreme treasure is knowledge, the middle treasure is children, and the lowest treasure is material wealth.

Proverbs and old sayings Mongolian about treasure, knowledge, wealth, children