Wealth consists not of having great possessions but of having few wants.

财富不在于拥有大量的财产,而在于拥有很少的欲望。

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If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence.

如果社会如此严格地对待其成员中那些在机遇所创造的分配或财富方面最缺乏天赋、因而最值得纵容的人,这(难道不是)令人愤慨的吗?

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.

说任何一个人都不适合自由,就是让贫困成为他们的选择,说他们宁愿背负重税也不愿不负担。

Painless poverty is better than embittered wealth.

无痛苦的贫穷胜过痛苦的财富。

Wealth is conspicuous, but poverty hides.

财富是显而易见的,但贫穷是隐藏的。