If you’re satisfied with just what you need, no one can control you. Independence begins where temptation and envy end. "If he didn’t need it, he didn’t buy it . . . if he didn’t care about it, he didn’t care if everyone else did. But the point of this frugality was not deprivation, it was independence. Cato lived in a modest home, inspired by one of his heroes, Manius Curius. At the height of the great conqueror’s powers, some men were sent to bribe Curius but found him in his kitchen boiling turnips. In an instant, they knew their mission was futile. A man satisfied with so little could never be tempted." Discipline Is Destiny Ryan Holiday