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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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"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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"Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead."
"In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it."
"The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other."
"Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride."
"It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck."
"Wealth after all is a relative thing since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much and wants more."
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
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