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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.
Try to be like the turtle -- at ease in your own shell.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
What makes us discontented with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we have of the happiness of others.
The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and read more
Whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom.
