Memories of Socrates Quotes

“You seem, Antiphon, to imagine that happiness consists in luxury and extravagance. But my belief is that to have no wants is divine; to have as few as possible comes next to the divine; and as that which is divine is supreme, so that which approaches nearest to its nature is nearest to the supreme.”
― Xenophon, Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology

“Well then, what about the businessman* who is good at making money, but so keen to make a lot of it that he drives a hard bargain, and is happy enough to rake the money in but reluctant to pay any out?’ ‘In my view,’ he said, ‘this one is even worse than the last.”
― Xenophon, Memories of Socrates: Memorabilia and Apology