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"Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you."
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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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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
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"I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along."
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"Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not."
Respect
"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty."
Family
"Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness."
Poetry
"A pure hand needs no glove to cover it."
Needs
"In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it."
Nature
"A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon."
Emotional
"Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments."
Earth
"Our Creator would never have made such lovely days, and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them, above and beyond all thought, unless we were meant to be immortal."
Thought
"I have laughed, in bitterness and agony of heart, at the contrast between what I seem and what I am!"
Psychology
"In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful."
Tradition
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