A feast is for laughing, and wine makes glad the heart; but by the one and the other money is wasted.

Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.