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"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."
"True contentment... is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare."
"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."
"Savour a slow-paced contented life."
"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."
"I have learned that to be with those I like is enough."
"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."
"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
"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."
Explore more quotes by Aesop
"The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over."
"Affairs are easier of entrance than of exit; and it is but common prudence to see our way out before we venture in."
"A doubtful friend is worse than a certain enemy. Let a man be one thing or the other, and we then know how to meet him."
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