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"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
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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."

"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."

"Most people desire comfort and pleasure."

"I was perfectly happy in my boring life before you came along."

"He is rich that is satisfied."
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"A God without dominion, providence, and final causes, is nothing else but fate and nature."
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