The famous sayings about the correct concept of consumption are as follows:

1. Luxury is the starting point of national weakness. ——Ancient Roman philosopher Seneca.

2. Frugality is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ——Greek philosopher Democritus.

3. Simplicity is a necessary condition for beauty. ——Russian writer Chernyshevsky.

4. Luxury is the death of morality. ——English Renaissance playwright Shakespeare.

5. Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty. ——Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles.

6. Luxury is the starting point of national weakness, while frugality is the foundation of national prosperity. ——Cicero, the ancient Roman statesman.

7. Frugality is an endless feast in your life. ——American writer Emerson.

8. Things in the world are often succeeded by diligence and frugality but failed by extravagance. ——Northern Song Dynasty writer Wu Jing.

9. Frugality is a virtue, luxury is a vice. ——French writer Victor Hugo.

10. Whoever scrimps on food and clothing on weekdays will easily get through difficulties when he is poor; whoever is luxurious and extravagant when he is rich will die of hunger and cold when he is poor. ——Persian poet Saadi.

11. Luxury and debauchery are only symptoms of social corruption, not the cause. ——Lu Xun.

12. Building a family is like a needle picking up soil, and losing a family is like water pushing away sand. ——Chinese proverb.

13. Show off when you have money, and go hungry when you have no money. ——Chinese proverb.

14. If you don’t know how to save small money, big money will be spent indiscriminately. ——Chinese proverb.

15. Success comes from diligence and frugality, and destruction comes from luxury. ——"Ode to History" by Li Shangyin, a poet of the Tang Dynasty.

16. Frugality is the root of all happiness. ——Wang Yongbin, a famous educator in the late Qing Dynasty and early Republic of China.

17. Those who are good at restraint should restrain themselves first and then others. ——Han Fei, a thinker during the Warring States Period, "Han Feizi·Explaining Difficulties".

18. Those who are extravagant are not rich enough, and those who are frugal are more than poor. ——Zhuge Liang, a famous military strategist during the Three Kingdoms period at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, "General Garden· General Disadvantages".

19. Don’t use a bucket to pour out the things accumulated in spoonfuls. ——Kazakh proverb.

20. Only through diligence and thrift can we create a wealthy country. ——British playwright Shakespeare.

21. Wealth is for those who work hard, not for those who spend money. ——Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle.

22. Only reason can guide us to the right future. ——French writer Zola.

23. The growth of wealth should depend on hard work and smart investment, not waste and squandering. ——American economist Franklin.

24. Money is not an end, but only a means to achieve an end. ——British writer Margaret Thatcher.

25. A person’s life should be like climbing from the earth to the sky, constantly climbing and learning. ——French Enlightenment thinker Voltaire.