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"True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
"Expectations make people miserable, so whatever yours are, lower them. You'll definitely be happier."
"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
"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."
"To have a full stomach and fixed income are no small things ."
"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."
"There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time."
"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
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"He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth."
"The three great apostles of practical atheism that make converts without persecuting and retain them without preaching are Wealth Health and Power."
"He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still."
"We owe almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed."
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