Epictetus Quotes

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

He is rich enough who has no wants.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

I'm happy without money.

There are two ways of being happy: We must either diminish our wants or augment our means - either may do - the result is the same and it is for each man to decide for himself and to do that which happens to be easier.

At home, growing up, we weren't really poor. We had everything we needed, we just didn't have what we wanted.

By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

To have what we want is riches; but to be able to do without is power.

That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I don't need a whole lot.

Money makes life easier but I don't want to be rich, not at all.

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.

The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.

My material life is simple.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I prefer to stay poor.

I don't spend any time at all thinking about my personal wealth. I suppose if I had nothing, I might think, 'I have nothing.'

I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me.

It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.

What would I do with money? I have enough for my needs. I don't want any more. If I had a lot, I would have to care for it, worry about it.

I started out with nothing. I still have most of it.

The more we have the less we own.