Accumulated wealth is saved by spending just as incoming fresh water is saved by letting out stagnant water.

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

For charity literally translated from the original means love, the love that understands, that does not merely share the wealth of the giver, but in true sympathy and wisdom helps men to help themselves.

He who loses his money is forsaken by his friends, his wife, his servants and his relations; yet when he regains his riches those who have forsaken him come back to him. Hence wealth is certainly the best of relations.

He who has wealth has friends.

Sinfully acquired wealth may remain for ten years; in the eleventh year it disappears with even the original stock.