Wealth gets in the way of wisdom.
More Japanese Proverbs:
You will never learn enough looking for only the good things in life; you will always be a pupil.Japanese
If you are going to sit on it for three years, the seat will certainly get warm.
Japanese
Virtue carries an empty purse.
Japanese
Money has no ears but it hears; no legs but it walks.
Japanese
The gods just laugh when men pray to them for wealth.
Japanese
He who makes the first bad move always loses the game.
Japanese