Pastoral Resources

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Humanity may endure the loss of everything; all its possessions may be turned away without infringing its true dignity - all but the possibility of improvement.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

The United States have no possessions in the east and do not desire to have any, as other countries do.

Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

This avidity alone, of acquiring goods and possessions for ourselves and our nearest friends, is insatiable, perpetual, universal, and directly destructive of society.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

A child's appetite for new toys appeal to the desire for ownership and appropriation: the appeal of toys comes to lie not in their use but in their status as possessions.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

All mankind... being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

Culture and possessions, there is the bourgeoisie for you.

And, of course, it must be asked: is it proper to transact with the Turks for the most reassured of Greek possessions when Greece is under Turkish invasion and subjugation?

It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.