Contentment Quote by Meg Wolfe

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. Socrates”

— Carolyn Spear

Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty

— Socrates

“Socrates may have concluded that his most valuable possession was his leisure. “Beware the barrenness of a busy life” is a quote commonly attributed…

— Michael Finkel

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

— Plato

“Among foragers, where property is shared, poverty tends to be a nonissue. In his classic book Stone Age Economics, anthropologist Marshall Sahlins explains that…

— Christopher Ryan

“True wealth is not the abundance of possessions, but the richness of the soul”

— George Stamatis

“Luxury cannot be obtained other than by enslaving other people.”

— Leo Tolstoy

“luxury   generally prevails in prosperity, and wastes the blessings of God,”

— John Calvin

“virtue does not spring from riches, but riches and all other human blessings, both private and public, from virtue.”

— Plato

“but in Utopia, where every man has a right to everything, they all know that if care is taken to keep the public stores…

— Thomas More

“As I was to learn, patience and latitude and even humility are, paradoxically, the handmaidens of wealth, because virtue is costly only for those…

— James Lee Burke

“Would you rather be poor and sated, or rich and hungry? Prosperity is not only greedy, but it also lies exposed to the greed…

— Seneca