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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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"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
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"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."
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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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"Religion is the opium of the masses."
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"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."
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"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."
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"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."
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"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."
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"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."
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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude."
Society
"Personality is everything in art and poetry."
Art
"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
Creativity
"Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting."
Life
"A mans manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
Character
"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."
People
"The formation of one's character ought to be everyone's chief aim."
Character
"The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
Government
"The biggest problem with every art is by the use of appearance to create a loftier reality."
Art
"A clever man commits no minor blunders."
Man
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