That is precisely the conclusion we should come to.[8] To persons ignorant of their use[9] flutes are wealth as saleable, but as possessions not for sale they are no wealth at all; and see, Socrates, how smoothly and consistently the argument proceeds,[10] since it is admitted that things which benefit are wealth. The flutes in question unsold are not wealth, being good for nothing: to become wealth they must be sold.英文原著 · 《The Economist》
SIR ROBERT CHILTERN. Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth.英文原著 · 《An Ideal Husband》
Wealth! wealth, my mother! Wealth to the mind--wealth to the heart-- high thoughts--bright dreams--the hope of fame--the ambition to be worthier to love Pauline.英文原著 · 《The Lady of Lyons》
Therefore they have no more of that kind of property. That a slave may indeed from the custom of speech be more properly called the wealth of his master, than the free labourer might be called the wealth of his employer: but as to the state, both were equally it's wealth, and should therefore equally add to the quota of it's tax.英文原著 · 《AUTOBIOGRAPHY》
Two points to be established in order to estimate the extent of the public charges, viz., the national wealth and the rate of taxation - The wealth and the charges of France not accurately known - Why the wealth and charges of the Union cannot be accurately known - Researches of the author with a view to discover the amount of taxation of Pennsylvania - General symptoms which may serve to indicate the amount of the public charges in a given nation - Result of this investigation for the Union.英文原著 · 《Democracy In America-1》
The same things, in fact, are wealth or not wealth, according as a man knows or does not know the use to make of them? To take an instance, a flute may be wealth to him who is sufficiently skilled to play upon it, but the same instrument is no better than the stones we tread under our feet to him who is not so skilled . unless indeed he chose to sell it?英文原著 · 《The Economist》
And yet you were still in the wealthiest state in the wealthiest country in the world.美剧 · 《Billions》
They become signifiers of a grander age, when titans of industry understood that the purpose of their wealth was to support the performative arts to improve the quality of life for all those who live in and visit this city.美剧 · 《Billions》
He's an icon of the wealth of our age, and he is a fraud.美剧 · 《Billions》
Very few things get the third wealthiest man in America to leave home.美剧 · 《Billions》