1. Worldly wealth is the devil’s bait and those whose minds feed upon riches, recede in general from real happiness in proportion as their stores increase, as when the moon is full when most distant from the sun. 2. Seek not proud wealth but such as you may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully and live contendtedly. It can only be a blessing, being to sustain and extend knowledge, virtue and religion know their use. Those who lose them by accident or fraud know their vanity, and those who experience difficulties and dangers of preserving them knowtheir perplexities. He who will not permit his wealth to do so any good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing good to others while he is living, prevents it from doing any good to himself when he is dead, and by an egotism which is suicidal and has a double edge, cuts himself off from the truest pleasure and the highest happiness hereafter. 3. Let us not envy some men their accumulated riches. Their burden would be too heavy for us. We could not sacrifice, as they do, health, quiet, honour, and conscience to obtain them. 4. If you desire to purchase honour with your wealth, consider first how wrath became yours. If your labour got it, let your wiskdom keep it. If oppression found it, let repentence resolve it. If your parent left it let your virtues deserve it. So shall your honour be safer, better and cheeper.

[Pooya/Ali Commentary 70:18] (see commentary for verse 6)