self sufficiency Quotes

The souls ability to nourish itself lies in the heart.

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

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... ...

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

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... ...

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... ...

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.