Would you leave 'you' out of translating this sentence in a casual
conversation with acquaintance by email?

> Money's worth what you make it worth.

So would お金は価値を持ってそれを作るものをの価値がある be correct and still make sense? Or would you
have to put in some form of you, like そなた?

> お金は価値を持ってそなたそれを作るものをの価値がある。

Or

> お金は価値を持ってあなたそれを作るものをの価値がある。
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What's the correct 'you' to use in this case?
This type of "you" is called [**generic
you**](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_you). As you have guessed, how to
express generic you depends on the language. In Japanese, it's often best not
to specify a subject at all. 人 is a word that can be used to explicitly refer
to generic you. あなた/そなた almost never appears in traditional Japanese sayings,
but it may be understood in a translated material.

  * 欲しいものが常に手に入るわけではない。  
You can't always get what you want.

  * 何が起こるか分からない。  
You never know what will happen.

  * 人はパンだけで生きるのではない。  
Man shall not live by bread alone.

Your translation attempt has a number of grammatical errors. Most importantly,
"to make it worth" cannot be expressed with 作る which only means "to
create/establish/make". You have to use a causative form instead. A literal
translation would be something like お金には人が価値を持たせる分だけの価値がある, but this still
sounds fairly unnatural in Japanese. I recommend rephrasing it like
お金の価値は使い方で決まる, 使う人によってお金の価値は変わる, うまく使えば使うほどお金の価値は上がる, etc.
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