Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
No man is poor who does not think himself so. But if in a full fortune with impatience he desires more, he proclaims his wants and his beggarly condition.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
That man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it.
If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.