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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."

"Contentment comes from wanting what we need, not needing what we want."

"Want is always hungry and searching whereas contentment is steady, calm and receiving."

"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."

"I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism."

"He who is happy in his hut is better than he who is miserable in his palace."

"There is satisfaction in serving."

"Contentment is what should be our focus rather than expecting miracles."

"Better life begins the moment you learn to be content with what you already have."
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"Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."

"Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."

"A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."

"In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."

"Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."

"The introduction of free competition is thus public declaration that from now on the members of society are unequal only to the extent that their capitals are unequal, that capital is the decisive power, and that therefore the capitalists, the bourgeoisie, have become the first class in society."

"Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"

"Philosophers have hitherto interpreted the world in various ways; the point, however, is to change it."
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