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That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Henry David Thoreau, American essayist, poet, and philosopher (1817–1862)

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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.

Socrates, 5th-century BCE Greek philosopher

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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.

Democritus, Greek philosopher (c. 460–c. 370 BC)

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Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, He who is content.

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.

Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (1709–1784)

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The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else.

I'm crazy enough to believe that the happiest man on earth is the man with the fewest needs.

"Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, "He who is content.

The poor rich man! all he has is what he has bought. What I see is mine.

A greedy man is an unlucky man.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-American industrialist and philanthropist (1835–1919)

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I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

Winston Churchill, British statesman, soldier and writer (1874–1965)

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The richest person
is not the one who has
the most, but the one
who needs the least.