“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”

“No wealth can ever make a bad man at peace with himself”

“Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.”

“Wars and revolutions and battles, you see, are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.”

“...both wealth and concord decline as possessions become pursued and honored. And virtue perishes with them as well.”

“Self conquest is the greatest of victories.”

“The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.”