Echoes

Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, honorable, compassionate.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

We are here to add what we can to, not to get what we can from, Life.

The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

Blessed is he who has found his work; let him ask no other blessedness.

I believe people work for satisfaction.

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

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length.

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.

Do not seek pleasure for its own sake.

Faith is the best wealth for a man in this world. Righteousness when well practised brings happiness. Truth is the sweetest of flavours. They say the life of one living by wisdom is the best.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

That is not riches, which may be lost; virtue is our true good and the true reward of its possessor. That cannot be lost; that never deserts us, but when life leaves us. As to property and external riches, hold them with trembling; they often leave their possessor in contempt, and mocked at for having lost them.

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him.

It is not the man who has too little who is poor, but the one who hankers after more.

Wealth and honor are what every man desires. But if they have been obtained in violation of moral principles, they must not be kept.

The person who has lived the most is not the one who has lived the longest, but the one with the richest experiences.

If you live according to nature, you will never be poor; if you live according to opinion, you will never be rich.

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits—the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself.