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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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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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"He who is contented is rich."
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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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"One often learns more from ten days of agony than ten years of contentment."
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"The act is unjustifiable that either begs for a blessing, or, having succeeded gives no thanksgiving."
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"Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life."
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"You can employ men and hire hands to work for you, but you must win their hearts to have them work with you."
Men

"Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might."
Friendship

"Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
Clothes
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