Cato the Elder Quotes

I am totally unattached to material items.

The more we have the less we own.

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

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

I don't like possessions.

I don't have a desire for material things. As long as I'm happy, I'm good, man.

He is not poor that hath not much, but he that craves much.

The more you own, the more you know you don't own.

I see what happens when one gets very attached to material things. That's just not what my life is.

I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.

He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

I don't like to attach myself to material things.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little, for there is never want where the mind is satisfied.

I'm not a materialistic person.

I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

India profoundly changed my outlook on life because you see how people can be content and very happy with little or even no possessions. It's the reverse of the West.

A small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.

I don't need a whole lot.

Very early on in life, I decided the hell with it: material things weren't for me. Christmas would come, and other kids would have all these presents, and it wouldn't bother me a bit.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

I don't covet images or belongings. My television set and video are rented, any paintings aren't worth a fortune, and money is of little interest.

After I had money, I realized about all that all the things I thought I wanted that I don't need a lot of stuff. If there's anything I get excited by, it's a nice car.

I'm not a material guy, so I don't need to surround myself with wealth.

I grew up with very little - so material things have never been that important for me.