إذا كان الرجل فخورًا بثروته، فلا يُمدح حتى يُعرف كيف ينفقها.
النص الأصلي بالإنجليزية
“If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.”Socrates — Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study (1967)