لا تصدّق كثيرًا من يبدون وكأنهم يزدرون الثروة، فإنما يزدرونها لأنهم ييأسون من نيلها.

“Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them.”Francis Bacon — The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author (1740)