“A good name is more excellent than money, and good favor is better than heaps of silver. Faith itself redounds to itself, sufficiently rich and more than rich in its possession. There is nothing which is not the possession of the wise person except what is contrary to virtue, and wherever he goes he finds all things t…”
Ambrose of Milan, 4th c. — LETTER 15
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1A GOOD name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.
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— Proverbs 22:1 —
2The rich and poor meet together: the LORD is the maker of them all.
3A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, and are punished.