Echoes

Self-sufficiency is the greatest of all wealth.

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

Independence I have long considered as the grand blessing of life, the basis of every virtue; and independence I will ever secure by contracting my wants, though I were to live on a barren heath.

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

The worst lesson that can be taught a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings.

He needs no library, for he has not done thinking; no church, for he is himself a prophet; no statute book, for he hath the Lawgiver; no money, for he is value itself; no road, for he is at home where he is.

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

Insist on yourself; never imitate.

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

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

The man who dies rich dies disgraced.

I exist as I am, that is enough.

Everything in the universe is within you. Ask all from yourself.

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.

No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life.

Gain all you can, save all you can, give all you can.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.

Virtue is the root; wealth is the result.

Henceforth I ask not good fortune — I myself am good fortune.

The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself.

Be a lamp unto yourself, be a refuge to yourself. Take yourself to no external refuge. Hold fast to the Truth as a lamp; hold fast to the Truth as a refuge.