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"We often feel that we lack something, and seem to see that very quality in someone else, promptly attributing all our own qualities to him too, and a kind of ideal contentment as well. And so the happy mortal is a model of complete perfection--which we have ourselves created."
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"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
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"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
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"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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"I am satisfied, and sufficiently occupied with the things which are, without tormenting or troubling myself about those which may indeed be, but of which I have no evidence."
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"In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record."
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"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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"I'm really a very happy, contented little person in spite of my broken heart."
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"Being satisfied with the little we have; academically, spiritually, financially, ecumenically or otherwise will prevent a lot of problems from coming to us, and our dependence in our abilities and talents will go as far as bringing us satisfaction in life."
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"Luxury is not a necessity to me, but beautiful and good things are."
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"Naturalists tell of a noble race of horses that instinctively open a vein with their teeth, when heated and exhausted by a long course, in order to breathe more freely. I am often tempted to open a vein, to procure for myself everlasting liberty. Cento volte ho impugnato una lama per conficcarmela nel cuore. Si dice di una nobile razza i cavalli,che quando si sentono accaldati e affaticati, si aprono istintivamente una vena, per respirare piA1 liberamente. Spesso anche io vorrei aprirmi una vena che mi desse libertA eterna."
Despair
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
Contentment
"If I wasn't a devil myself I'd give Me up to the Devil this very minute."
Conflict
"I will say nothing... against the course of my existence. But at bottom it has been nothing but pain and burden, and I can affirm that during the whole of my 75 years, I have not had four weeks of genuine well-being. It is but the perpetual rolling of a rock that must be raised up again forever."
Aging
"It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself."
Limit
"To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind."
Teamwork
"Man is not born to solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do; and to restrain himself within the limits of his comprehension."
Philosophy
"A man's shortcomings are taken from his epoch, his virtues and greatness belong to himself."
Character
"Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."
Beauty
"When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one."
Emotion
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