A wise person will never let even one dishonestly earned penny into their home. But they won't refuse or shut the door on great wealth — if it comes from good fortune and honest work. Why should they grudge such wealth a good home? Let it come and stay as a guest. They won't brag about it or hide it away. Bragging shows a foolish spirit. Hiding it shows a cowardly and small spirit — like someone wrapping up a good thing in their lap to keep it secret. And they won't kick such wealth out of their house either, as I said before. What would they say? "You're useless" or "I don't know how to use riches?"
The wise man will not allow a single ill-won penny to cross his threshold: yet he will not refuse or close his door against great riches, if they are the gift of fortune and the product of virtue: what reason has he for grudging them good quarters: let them come and be his guests: he will neither brag of them nor hide them away: the one is the part of a silly, the other of a cowardly and paltry spirit, which, as it were, muffles up a good thing in its lap. Neither will he, as I said before, turn them out of his house: for what will he say? will he say, "You are useless," or "I do not know how to use riches?"