A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
There is no wealth but life.
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
I have always felt intuitively that somehow such wealth cannot be the privy of any one person or any one family.
If you don't have many possessions, then you don't need to work all your life like a slave to sustain them, and therefore you have more time for yourself.
Freedom conceives that the mind and spirit of man can be free only if he be free to pattern his own life, to develop his own talents, free to earn, to spend, to save, to acquire property as the security of his old age and his family.
Freedom comes only to those who no longer ask of life that it shall yield them any of those personal goods that are subject to the mutations of time.
No one is free who has not obtained the empire of himself.
For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Freedom of choice is more to be treasured than any possession earth can give.
Wealth is the ability to fully experience life.