Quote #37
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
More from Socrates
- Call no man unhappy until he is married.
- Could I climb to the highest place in Athens, I would lift my voice and proclaim, 'Fellow citizens, why do you turn and scrape every stone …
- By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
- Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.
- Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
- Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.