7 Socrates Quotes on Wealth

Socrates quotes on wealth

4. Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

9. I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money, but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the youth, I am a mischievous person.

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

38. 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 to gather wealth, and take so little care of your children to whom one day you must relinquish it all?'

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

59. If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

89. Virtue does not come from wealth, but health, and every other good thing which men have comes from virtue.