The remedy against want is to moderate your desires.

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ass comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

Poverty snatches the reins out of the hand of piety.

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow

Avoid that which an enemy tells you to do; for if you follow his advice, you will smite your, knees with the hand of sorrow. If he shows you a road straight as an arrow, turn from it and go the other way.

Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it is as one who ploughs but does not sow.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.