self sufficiency Quotes

Happiness, then, is found to be something perfect and self-sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and... ...

Self-sufficiency is both a good and an absolute good.

The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states... ...

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good... ...

. . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's.

A life of wealth and many belongings is only a means to happiness. Honor, power, and success cannot be happiness because they depend on the whims of others, and happiness should be self-contained, complete in itself.

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.