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"True contentment is the power of getting of any situation all that there is in it."
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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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"He is rich that is satisfied."
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"It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos, for man was always small compared to the nearest tree."
Perspective
"Some men never feel small, but these are the few men who are."
Man
"We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour."
Friendship
"The purpose of Compulsory Education is to deprive the common people of their commonsense."
Education
"Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all."
Love
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people."
Love
"I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite."
Success
"Most modern freedom is at root fear. It is not so much that we are too bold to endure rules, it is rather that we are too timid to endure responsibilities."
Freedom
"Virtue is not the absence of vices or the avoidance of moral dangers; virtue is a vivid and separate thing, like pain or a particular smell. Mercy does not mean not being cruel or sparing people revenge or punishment; it means a plain and positive thing like the sun, which one has either seen or not see."
Ethics
"What people call impartiality may simply mean indifference, and what people call partiality may simply mean mental activity."
People
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