A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
唯物主义
Materialism
Wealth maketh many friends
有钱能使朋友多
A great fortune is a great slavery.
巨大的财富是巨大的奴役。
It is better to live rich than to die rich.
活得富有总比死得富有好。
Money is like muck, not good except it be spread.
金钱好比粪肥，只有撒到大地才是有用之物。
He is not fit for riches who is afraid to use them.
不敢使用财富的人不配拥有财富。
Riches are a good handmaid, but the worst mistress.
财富是最好的使女，也是最坏的女主人。
The man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
能处处寻求快乐的人才是最富有的人。
Money speaks sense in a language all nations understand.
金钱用一种所有国家都能理解的语言表达意义。
Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.
金钱买不到朋友，但你有了更好的敌人。
Men do not desire merely to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
人们不仅渴望富有，而且希望比别人更富有。
If your Riches are yours, why don’t you take them with you t’other World?
如果你的财富是你的，为什么不带着它们到另一个世界去呢?
I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.
我终于知道了人与其他野兽的区别:经济上的担忧。
KEEP EXPLORING
沿着这个主题，再读几句。
Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.
盗贼尊重财产权。他们只是希望财产成为他们的财产，以便他们能够更完全地尊重它。
I'm tired of love; I'm still more tired of rhyme; but money gives me pleasure all the time.
我厌倦了爱;我更厌倦押韵;但是钱总是给我带来快乐。
There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.
无论多么痛苦的痛苦，很少有收入对其不起作用的。
The problem with borrowing money is that as soon as one has, one inevitably begins to think of it as one's own. One becomes used to it, treats it like family, and may even come to resent or lose sight of the fact that it must all someday leave to visit someone else.
借钱的问题在于，一旦你有了钱，你就不可避免地开始把它当作自己的钱。一个人会习惯它，把它当成家人，甚至可能开始怨恨或忽视这样一个事实，那就是总有一天它会离开去拜访别人。
There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
曾经有一段时间，一个傻瓜和他的钱很快就分开了，但现在这种事发生在每个人身上。