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"No one is content with his own lot."
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"He that is discontented in one place will seldom be happy in another."
"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."
"When your focus on earth is only on material things and earthly blessings you will never be satisfied."
"In Rome you long for the country. In the country you praise to the skies the distant town."
"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."
"The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent."
"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."
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"To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it."
"Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain."
"A portion of mankind take pride in their vices and pursue their purpose; many more waver between doing what is right and complying with what is wrong."
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