Could you explain that saying, please?
People often say that while money may bring wealth, friends bring riches. New research, however, shows that friends may bring both kinds of riches.

I don't quite understand it because the dictionary says that wealth=riches and there is no adjectives, like non-monetary or spiritual before "riches".*there are no adjectives

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Could you explain that saying, please?
People often say that while money may bring wealth, friends bring riches. New research, however, shows that friends may bring both kinds of riches.

I don't quite understand it because the dictionary says that wealth=riches and there is no adjectives, like non-monetary or spiritual before "riches".*there are no adjectives

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'riches' without any qualification does normally mean money - but by contrasting it with 'while' - you have to assume when reading it that 'riches' means non-monetary enrichment in the first part. It's a bit of a trick with words. In the second, they are saying - well actually - it's both (the 'normal' monetary kind, and the non-monetary one previously implied. I guess they are saying that friends also help you make money, which, based on the other saying 'it's not what you know, it's who you know', does make sense.

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Riches generally relates to wealth , but It can also means something valuable to possess as in riches of life .
There is spiritual riches as well ( just google "spiritual riches" and  "riches in life"  and you will get many hits)

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