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"In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town."
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"When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied."
"Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied."
"Humans are forever discontent-always thinking there are better alternatives to their present circumstances."
"Blessed with riches and possibilities far beyond anything imagined by ancestors who tilled the unpredictable soil of medieval Europe, modern populations have nonetheless shown a remarkable capacity to feel that neither who they are nor what they have is quite enough."
"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another."
"Personal discontent and lost illusion is the catalysis and the principal theme for every book ever written. The sign of maturity is when a person finally realizes that they would rather live truthfully than persist indulging his or her comforting delusions."
"The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent."
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"Lectio, quae placuit, decies repetita placebit. (What we read with pleasure we can read many times with pleasure.)"
"Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death."
"Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?"
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