Socrates Quotes on Contentment
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Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'
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Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods.
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Contentment is natural wealth, luxury is artificial poverty.
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
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He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
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If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart.
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My belief is that to have no wants is divine.
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What a lot of things there are a man can do without.