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Wealth Quotes by Socrates
- Contentment is natural wealth.
- What a lot of things there are a man can do without.
- He is the richest who is content with the least.
- Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
- If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Wealth does not bring about excellence (aka areté), but excellence (aka areté) brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
- Fellow citizens, why do you burn and scrape every stone to gather wealth and take so little care of your children to whom you must…
- Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth;…
- Virtue does not come from wealth, but wealth, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.
- I have not sought during my life to amass wealth and to adorn my body, but I have sought to adorn my soul with the…
- All wars are fought for the acquisition of wealth
- The reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.
- Are you not ashamed of your eagerness to possess as much wealth, reputation, and honors as possible, while you do not care for nor give…
- He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
- Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
- If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
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