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

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

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

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

“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.”

“In practice people who study philosophy too long become very odd birds, not to say thoroughly vicious; while even those who are the best of them are reduced by...[philosophy] to complete uselessness as members of society.”

“Let parents then bequeath to their children not riches but the spirit of reverence.”