"Contentment is natural wealth...." - Quote by Socrates

“It is a base thing for a man to wax old in careless self-neglect before he has lifted up his eyes and seen what manner of man he was made to be, in the full perfection of bodily strength and beauty. But these glories are withheld from him who is guilty of self-neglect, for they are not wont to blaze forth unbidden.”

“Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure.”

“I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.”

“Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?”

“Peaceful is the one who is not concerned with having more or less.”

“We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor.”

“There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil.”

“A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.”

“Don't confuse wealth with success.”