8 Socrates Quotes on Contentment

Socrates quotes on contentment

22. Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'

23. Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.

37. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.

50. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

51. He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

60. If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.

64. My belief is that to have no wants is divine.

91. What a lot of things there are a man can do without.