Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
—Socrates
I cannot close my eyes to the fact that, by eating meat, I demand the murder of living beings to satisfy my luxurious lifestyle and my taste.
—Leo Tolstoy
Wine and other luxuries have a tendency to enervate the mind and make men less brave in battle.
—Julius Caesar
Wealth, and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent.
—Plato
The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise.
—Socrates
Wealth and luxury produce stagnation, and stagnation terminates in death.
—William Wilberforce
The Holy Spirit is not a luxury, not something added now and again to produce a deluxe type of Christian once in a generation. No, He is for every child of God a vital necessity
—AW Tozer
The enemy is within the gates; it is with our own luxury, our own folly, our own criminality that we have to contend.
—Cicero