He is richest who is content with the least,
by Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates
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Sayings by Socrates
Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
- Socrates 
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Know thyself.
- Socrates (inscribed on the ancient Greek temple at Delphi)
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An honest man is always a child.
- Socrates
The envious person grows lean
with the fatness of their neighbor.
- Socrates
It is not living that matters, but living rightly.
- Socrates
The unexamined life is not worth living.
- Socrates
Not life, but good life,
is to be chiefly valued.
- Socrates
The greatest way to live with honor in this world
is to be what we pretend to be.
- Socrates
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor
to be what you desire to appear.
- Socrates
I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- Socrates
He is richest who is content with the least.
- Socrates
As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
I know that I am intelligent,
because I know that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Let him that would move the world first move himself.
- Socrates
Worthless people live only to eat and drink;
people of worth eat and drink only to live.
- Socrates
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates
Envy is the ulcer of the soul.
- Socrates
True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
- Socrates
Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
- Socrates
I cannot teach anybody anything.
I can only make them think.
- Socrates
Be slow to fall into friendship;
but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
- Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
The shortest and surest way to
live with honor in the world,
is to be in reality
what we would appear to be.
- Socrates
As to marriage or celibacy, let a man
take which course he will,
he will be sure to repent.
- Socrates
Our prayers should be for blessings in general,
for God knows best what is good for us.
- Socrates
The end of life is to be like God,
and the soul following God will be like Him.
- Socrates
False words are not only evil in themselves,
but they infect the soul with evil.
- Socrates
All men's souls are immortal,
but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
- Socrates
Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
- Socrates
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize
how little we understand about life,
ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates
He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates
From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- Socrates
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
- Socrates
Content Sayings
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
- Plato
If you want to improve,
be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
- Epictetus
I look to a day when people will not be judged
by the color of their skin,
but by the content of their character.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
My great concern is not whether you have failed,
but whether you are content with your failure.
- Abraham Lincoln
When you are content to be simply yourself
and don't compare or compete,
everybody will respect you.
- Lao Tzu
The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life,
and urge doing.
I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence,
and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.
- Helen Keller
Least Sayings
Love me when I least deserve it,
because that's when I really need it.
- Swedish Proverb
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others.
And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung
If you can, help others;
if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
I find that he is happiest
of whom the world says least, good or bad.
- Thomas Jefferson
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known.
- Michel de Montaigne
Men of lofty genius,
when they are doing the least work,
are most active.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Love is like a butterfly,
it settles upon you when you least expect it.
- Anonymous
The one who loves the least, controls the relationship.
- Robert Anthony
Most truths are so naked
that people feel sorry for them
and cover them up,
at least a little bit.
- Edward R. Murrow
Genuine heroes - no batteries needed -
bring lots of open-mind and at least a little courage.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
If in the least particular, one could
derange the order of nature,
who would accept the gift of life?
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everyone is a genius at least once a year;
a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
- Georg Lichtenberg
For those who do not think,
it is best at least to rearrange
their prejudices once in a while.
- Luther Burbank
Wealth Sayings
The greatest wealth is health.
- Virgil
Whoever does not regard what he has
as most ample wealth, is unhappy,
though he be master of the world.
- Epictetus
Wealth consists not in having great possessions,
but in having few wants.
- Epictetus
Our journey into consciousness of wealth
begins with the realization that we have already arrived!
- Michael Bernard Beckwith
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.
- Henry David Thoreau
It is health that is real wealth,
and not pieces of gold and silver.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
The first wealth is health.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Health is the greatest gift,
contentment the greatest wealth,
faithfulness the best relationship.
- The Buddha
It is neither wealth nor splendor;
but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.
- Thomas Jefferson
Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly.
It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.
- Henry Ford
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