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"The invisible people knew that happiness is not the natural state of mankind, and is never achieved from the outside in."
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"Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath."
"He is rich that is satisfied."
"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."
"The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity."
"Life's contentment is like an abstract edifice with a domed ceiling of insanity."
"The happier person is one, that acknowledges and accepts life won't get any better than this."
"All you need is what you have."
"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."
"There are two godheads: the world and my independent I. I am either happy or unhappy, that is all. It can be said: good or evil do not exist. A man who is happy must have no fear. Not even in the face of death. Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy."
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"The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is. It has to deal with the male one."
"A mirror can contain the reflection of the whole universe, a whole skyful of stars in a piece of silvered glass no thicker than a breath."
"He had the kind of real deep tan that rich people spent ages trying to achieve with expensive holidays and bits of tinfoil, when really all you need to do to obtain one is work your arse off in the open air everyday."
"I should have learned this, she thought. I wanted to learn fire, and pain, but I should have learned people."
"There is never a bad time for a pun. There's also never really a good time for a pun. You might as well just stay braced for a pun at all times, and ride them when they come with as much grace as you can manage.The fact that you can replace 'pun' with 'disaster' in the last three rules says a lot about the human race."
"The Tezuman Empire in the jungle valleys of central Klatch is known for it organic market gardens, its exquisite craftsmanship in obsidian, feathers and jade, and its mass human sacrifices in honor of Quezovercoatl, the Feathered Boa, god of mass human sacrifices."
"The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys."
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