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The presence of excessive wealth puts an unnatural spin on the appreciation of art. -- Steve Martin
Wherever there is excessive wealth, there is also in the train of it excessive poverty. -- Walter Savage Landor
Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth. -- Edmund Phelps
Titles are tinsel, power a corrupter, glorya bubble, and excessive wealth a libel on its possessor. -- Percy Bysshe Shelley
If there is neither excessive wealth nor immoderate poverty in a nation, then justice may be said to prevail. -- Thales
There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil. -- Plato
The spirit of commerce is frugality, economy, moderation, labor, ponderance, tranquillity, order, and rule. So long as this spirit subsides, the riches it produces have no bad effect. The mischief is when excessive wealth destroys the spirit of commerce, then it is that the conveniences of inequality... are felt. -- Baron de Montesquieu
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth. -- Tony Judt
Excessive wealth is a great problem masquerading as a great good. -- Mardy Grothe
The destruction of the inducement to invest by an excessive liquidity-preference was the outstanding evil, the prime impediment to the growth of wealth, in the ancient and medieval worlds. -- John Maynard Keynes
None in this age will amass wealth except those having five traits ofcharacter. High hopes; abnormal greediness; excessive miserliness, lack of fearing Allaah; and forgetfulness of the coming world. -- Sufyan al-Thawri

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