Socrates Quotes on Money & Wealth (9 Quotes)

Are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul

Virtue does not come from wealth, but ... wealth, and every other good thing which men have ... comes from virtue.

If a rich man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

An education obtained with money is worse than no education at all

Wars and revolutions and battles 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.

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

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

Contentment is natural wealth luxury, artificial poverty.