What Fortune Has Made Yours Is Not Your Own

"Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power"

"“Were all the geniuses of history to focus on this single theme, they could never fully express their bafflement at the darkness of the human mind. No person would give up even an inch of their estate, and the slightest dispute with a neighbor can mean hell to pay; yet we easily let others encroach on our lives—worse, we often pave the way for those who will take it over. No person hands out their money to passersby, but to how many do each of us hand out our lives! We’re tight-fisted with property and money, yet think too little of wasting time, the one thing about which we should all be the toughest misers.”"

"He who has made a fair compact with poverty is rich"

"“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”"

"“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?”"

"No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity"