The greatest wealth is a poverty of desires.
The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.
For men in a state of freedom had thatch for their shelter, while slavery dwells beneath marble and gold.
To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
The expression of truth is simplicity.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness. The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort. To want simply what is enough nowadays suggests to people primitiveness and squalor.
Straightforwardness and simplicity are in keeping with goodness.