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• The poor is honoured for wit, and the rich for wealth. (Ecclesiasticus 10, 30)

• Honoured in poverty, how much the more in wealth! Dishonoured in wealth, how much the more in poverty! (Ecclesiasticus 10, 31)

• Good and bad, life and death, poverty and wealth, all come from the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 14)

• although they say, 'Now I can sit back and enjoy the benefit of what I have got,' they do not know how long this will last; they will have to leave their goods to others and die. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 19)

• Do not try to carry a burden too heavy for you, do not associate with someone more powerful and wealthy than yourself. Why put the clay pot next to the iron cauldron? It will only break when they bang against each other. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 2)

• Wealth is good where there is no sin, poverty is evil, the godless say. (Ecclesiasticus 13, 24)

• Wealth is not the right thing for the niggardly, and what use are possessions to the covetous? (Ecclesiasticus 14, 3)

• The dead can praise no more than those who do not exist, only those with life and health can praise the Lord. (Ecclesiasticus 17, 28)

• Sand and salt and a lump of iron are a lighter burden than a dolt. (Ecclesiasticus 22, 15)

• I am like a vine putting out graceful shoots, my blossoms bear the fruit of glory and wealth. (Ecclesiasticus 24, 17)

• The way a fire burns depends on its fuel, a quarrel spreads in proportion to its violence; a man's rage depends on his strength, his fury grows fiercer in proportion to his wealth. (Ecclesiasticus 28, 10)

• Until he gets something, a man will kiss his neighbour's hand, and refer diffidently to his wealth; but when the loan falls due, he puts this off, he repays with offhand words, and pleads the inconvenience of the time. (Ecclesiasticus 29, 5)