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"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."
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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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"Disappointment is a sort of bankruptcy - the bankruptcy of a soul that expends too much in hope and expectation."
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"The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it."
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"The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person."
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"Where there is the necessary technical skill to move mountains, there is no need for the faith that moves mountains."
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"Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength."
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"Social improvement is attained more readily by a concern with the quality of results than with the purity of motives."
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"Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice."
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