1212. THAT THOSE WHO ACQUIRE RICHES BY DECEITFUL MEANS NEVER BECOME WEALTHY, BUT BECOME POOR Although this is evident as a truth from the acts of very many, and is so familiar as to be known in the common saying that, "ill-gotten gains do not come to the third heir", still for all that, very many are so incredulous and blind that they do not care by what means they acquire wealth. Today, however, it was also confirmed to me by the angels that this is so, and that ill-gotten wealth so melts away that they themselves do not know how; but others indeed are enriched. 1748, Mar. 7.