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Lao-Tze
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough
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Jean de La Fontaine
It is said, that the thing you possess is worth more than two you may have in the future. The one is sure and the other is not
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Bertrand Russell
It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly
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Joseph Addison
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants
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Marcus Cicero
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need
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Horace
You are judged of by what you possess
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Horace
He who has enough for his wants should desire nothing more
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Friedrich Nietzsche
Possessions are generally diminished by possession
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
On Anger:
"For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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Friedrich Nietzsche
On Destiny:
"Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Francis Bacon
On Friendship:
"A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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