illusion of wealth Quotes

What treasures here do Mammon's sons behold! Yet know that all that which glitters is not gold.

Wealth is the Conjurer's Devil, Whom, when he thinks he hath, the Devil hath him.

We can be seduced...by powerful political groups that promise more wealth and lower taxes. Those with power can use clever, psychological tricks and play upon our weaknesses and brokenness in order to attract us to their way of thinking. We can be manipulated into illusion.

The man who is rich in fancy thinks that his wagon is already built; poor fool, he does not know that there are a hundred timbers to a wagon.

That which seems to be wealth may in verity be only the gilded index of far reaching ruin

I felt like a rich vagabond who had passed through the world paving my way with gold fairy dust, then realizing too late that the path disintegrated as soon as I passed over it.

I remember a story of a girl in Paradise who ate an apple once. Some wise Sapient gave it to her. Because of it she saw things differently. What had seemed gold coins were dead leaves. Rich clothes were rags of cobweb. And she saw there was a wall around the world, with a locked gate.

There is no more cruel illusion than that war makes a people richer.