He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
More Quotes from Socrates:
I thought to myself, 'I am wiser than this man neither of us knows anything that is really worthwhile, but he thinks he has knowledge when he has not, while I, having no knowledge, do not think that I have. I seem, at any rate, to be a little wiser than he is on this point I do not think that I know what I do not know.Socrates
No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.
Socrates
Bad men live to eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink in order to live.
Socrates
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.
Socrates
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God.
Socrates
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