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"I am thankful when I am hungry because then I know that when I eat, the food will taste better. Life has taught me that my true contentment rests in hope, and the pleasure itself is secondary. It is self-awareness, not happiness, that maintains peace."
"The wealth we receive from God will never cause us to weep."
"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."
"Having contentment and gratitude in the present moment is the surest way to achieve success."
"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."
"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."
Explore more quotes by Horace
"Suffering is but another name for the teaching of experience, which is the parent of instruction and the schoolmaster of life."
"Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans. It is lovely to be silly at the right moment."
"Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious."
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