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。
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A feast is made for laughter, and wine maketh merry: but money answereth all things.
设摆筵席，是为喜笑。酒能使人快活。惟有钱能叫万事应心。
Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or reliable and very scarce.
钱是独一无二的东西。它和爱一样，是人类最大的快乐源泉。而死亡是他最大的焦虑来源。纵观历史，它以两种方式压迫着几乎所有的人:要么是资源丰富但极不可靠，要么是可靠而稀缺。
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。
The world is progressing and resources are becoming more abundant. I’d rather go into a grocery store today than to a king’s banquet a hundred years ago.
世界在进步，资源越来越丰富。我宁愿今天去杂货店，也不愿一百年前去参加国王的宴会。
To suppose as we all suppose, that we could be rich and not behave as the rich behave, is like supposing that we could drink all day and stay sober.
假设我们所有人都假设，我们可以富有而不像富人那样行事，就像假设我们可以整天喝酒而保持清醒一样。
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。