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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."

"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."

"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."

"It is better to be a marble in a hut than a brick in a palace."

"Money may buy you the means to a happiness, but it cannot buy happiness itself."

"Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him."

"It was best to appreciate what you had and not yearn for more."

"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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"It is with our passions as it is with fire and water, they are good servants, but bad masters."

"The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted."
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