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"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
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"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"If I continually focus on what I don't have, my life will always be completely empty despite the fact that it's completely full."
"On Epicurus; He says: "Contended poverty is an honourable estate." Indeed, if it is contented, it is not poverty at all. It is not the man who has little, but the man who craves more, that is poor."
"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."
"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
"Our frustration is greater when we have much and want more than when we have nothing and want some. We are less dissatisfied when we lack many things than when we seem to lack but one thing."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself."
"Stranger, if you passing meet me and desire to speak to me, why should you not speak to me? And why should I not speak to you?"
"You sea! I resign myself to you also-I guess what you mean, I behold from the beach your crooked fingers, I believe you refuse to go back without feeling of me.We must have a turn together,I undress, hurry me out of sight of the land,Cushion me soft, rock me billowy drowse,Dash me with amorous wet, I can repay you."
"After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, and so on - have found that none of these finally satisfy, or permanently wear - what remains? Nature remains."
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