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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
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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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"For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation."
Creativity

"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

"I will listen to anyone's convictions, but pray keep your doubts to yourself."
Will

"Doubt grows with knowledge."
Knowledge

"Every step of life shows much caution is required."
Life

"What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely."
Life
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