1. If a person never says anything carelessly, he is to be congratulated; he doesn't need to feel guilty.
2. If a person has a clear conscience and never gives up hope, he is certainly to be congratulated!
3. It isn't right for someone who is selfish to be rich. What use is money to a stingy person?
4. If you deny yourself in order to accumulate wealth, you are only accumulating it for someone else. Others will use your riches to live in luxury.
5. How can you be generous with others if you are stingy with yourself, if you are not willing to enjoy your own wealth?
6. No one is worse off than someone who is stingy with himself; it is a sin that brings its own punishment.
7. When such a person does something good, it is only by accident; his selfishness will sooner or later be evident.
8. A selfish person is evil; he turns his back on people's needs
9. and is never satisfied with what he has. Greed will shrivel up a person's soul.
10. Some people are too stingy to put bread on their own table.