He also said (1):
Silence is safety from every calamity;
Whoever attains it has won the finest portion.
No trial ever struck mankind
More harmful than a word from the mouth.
A slip of the tongue is deadly;
It is not, to us, like a slip of the foot.
So guard a tongue that may cast you into ruin,
For many a single phrase has abased a man of honor.

Section (2)
People have differed over which is superior: the grateful rich person or the patient poor person. Two famous opinions are reported.
Some have said: they are equal.
Others have said: the better of the two is the one who has more taqwā (God-fearingness) in his present state; if they are equal in that, then they are equal in rank.

Abū ʿAlī al-Daqqāq was asked about this matter and replied, “The rich person is superior, because richness is one of the attributes of Allah, Exalted is He.” Allah the Exalted says:
“O mankind, you are in need of Allah, whereas Allah is the Self-Sufficient, the Praiseworthy” (Qur’an 35:15).
He added, “But the rich one meant is he who trusts in what is with Allah, not in what is in his own hands,” meaning what the Messenger of Allah ﷺ said in the agreed-upon hadith: “Richness is not having an abundance of possessions; rather, richness is richness of the soul.” (3)

How excellent is the saying of one of them:
I grew rich—without wealth—independent of all mankind;
For true, exalted richness is to rise above a thing, not to possess it.

Another said:
When necks bow from us to You in humble submission,
Their very humiliation is their honor.

And yet another said:
Be content with what suffices you and practice satisfaction,
For you do not know whether you will wake or reach the evening.
Wealth is not amassed by multiplying money—
Wealth and poverty come first from the soul.