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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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"Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces, and which most men throw away."
Man
"Marriage is a feast where the grace is sometimes better than the dinner."
Marriage
"Men are born with two eyes, but with one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say."
Man
"To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread."
Happiness
"Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship - never."
Friendship
"True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost."
Friendship
"If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours."
Love
"Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance."
Wisdom
"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."
Fame
"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."
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"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
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"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."
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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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"The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."
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"Cottage of content was better than the Palace of cold splendour, and that where love was, all was."
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"... there was no need for him to hasten towards the attainment of a happiness already captured and held in a safe place, which would not escape his grasp again."
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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."
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"He is rich that is satisfied."
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"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
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"Being content with what you have already is an art form that leads to a peace that can't be replaced by anything else."
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