Luxury Quotes

Most popular luxury quotes

Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty. - Socrates quote.
Contentment is natural wealth; luxury is artificial poverty.

contentment

Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind. - Henry David Thoreau quote.
Most of the luxuries, and many of the so-called comforts, of life are not only not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind.

comfort

I think that luxury has nothing to do with money, and everything to do with beauty.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities. - Frank Lloyd Wright quote.
Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state. - Livy quote.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.

greed

One of the weaknesses of our age is our apparent inability to distinguish our need from our goals.

greed environment

What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat. - Seneca quote.
What nature requires is obtainable, and within easy reach. It is for the superfluous we sweat.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury. - Charlie Chaplin quote.
The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
Luxury makes a man so soft that it is hard to please him, and easy to trouble him; so that his pleasures at last become his burden. Luxury is a nice master, hard to be pleased.

wealth

Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose. - Benjamin Franklin quote.
Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose.

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