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title: "23 Man Content Quotes by 22 authors"
description: "Browse 23 Man Content quotes by 22 authors. Discover the best Man Content sayings and thoughts."
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> [The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/j-c-ryle/the-highest-form-of-selfishness-is-that-of-the-man-who-is-content-to/)

[J. C. Ryle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/j-c-ryle/)

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> [“Poor is the man whom is not content with what he has.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rita-gonzalez/poor-is-the-man-whom-is-not-content-with-what-he-has/)

[Rita Gonzalez](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rita-gonzalez/)

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> [Every stage of life has its troubles, and no man is content with his own age.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/decimius-magnus-ausonius/every-stage-of-life-has-its-troubles-and-no-man-is-content-with-his/)

[Decimius Magnus Ausonius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/decimius-magnus-ausonius/)

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> [Every man should be content to mind his own business.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aesop/every-man-should-be-content-to-mind-his-own-business/)

[Aesop](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aesop/)

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> [Try to live the life of the good man who is more than content with what is allocated to him.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marcus-aurelius/try-to-live-the-life-of-the-good-man-who-is-more-than-content-with/)

[Marcus Aurelius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marcus-aurelius/)

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> [The man who is content to live alone is either a beast or a god.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aristotle/the-man-who-is-content-to-live-alone-is-either-a-beast-or-a-god/)

[Aristotle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aristotle/)

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> [Every man must be content with that glory which he may have at home.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/every-man-must-be-content-with-that-glory-which-he-may-have-at-home/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

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> [A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/boethius/a-man-content-to-go-to-heaven-alone-will-never-go-to-heaven/)

[Boethius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/boethius/)

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> [A healthy man is content with a woman. An erotic man is content with a stocking to get to a woman. A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/karl-kraus/a-healthy-man-is-content-with-a-woman-an-erotic-man-is-content-with-a/)

[Karl Kraus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/karl-kraus/)

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> [The virtues which keep this world sweet and the faithfulness which keeps it steadfast are chiefly those of the average man. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-russell-bowie/the-virtues-which-keep-this-world-sweet-and-the-faithfulness-which/)

[Walter Russell Bowie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-russell-bowie/)

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> [Men are not rich or poor according to what they possess but to what they desire. The only rich man is he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/roger-chamberlain/men-are-not-rich-or-poor-according-to-what-they-possess-but-to-what/)

[Roger Chamberlain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/roger-chamberlain/)

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> [Man may content himself with the applause of the world and the homage paid to his intellect, but woman's heart has holier…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/george-eliot/man-may-content-himself-with-the-applause-of-the-world-and-the-homage/)

[George Eliot](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/george-eliot/)

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> [“When has any man ever been content with what he has? When has any tyrant said to himself, 'This is enough'?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brandon-sanderson/when-has-any-man-ever-been-content-with-what-he-has-when-has-any/)

[Brandon Sanderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brandon-sanderson/)

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> [Give a bull grass, sweet water and a willing heifer and he is happy. But a man is never content. If no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alison-fell/give-a-bull-grass-sweet-water-and-a-willing-heifer-and-he-is-happy/)

[Alison Fell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alison-fell/)

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> [Only man is not content to leave things as they are but must always be changing them, and when he has done…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elspeth-huxley/only-man-is-not-content-to-leave-things-as-they-are-but-must-always/)

[Elspeth Huxley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elspeth-huxley/)

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> [One man's content is another woman's crap. And the crappy content - let's call it crontent - will never go away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/faith-salie/one-man-s-content-is-another-woman-s-crap-and-the-crappy-content-let/)

[Faith Salie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/faith-salie/)

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> [“It is a poor sort of man who is content to be spoon-fed knowledge that has been filtered through the canon of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/louis-l-amour/it-is-a-poor-sort-of-man-who-is-content-to-be-spoon-fed-knowledge/)

[Louis L'Amour](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/louis-l-amour/)

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> [He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ellen-glasgow/he-felt-with-the-force-of-a-revelation-that-to-throw-up-the-clods-of/)

[Ellen Glasgow](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ellen-glasgow/)

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> [The gods should certainly be revered, but kept at a distance... . The way is not beyond man; he who creates a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/confucius/the-gods-should-certainly-be-revered-but-kept-at-a-distance-the-way/)

[Confucius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/confucius/)

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> [Nothing is more sterile or lamentable than the man content to live within himself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harold-pinter/nothing-is-more-sterile-or-lamentable-than-the-man-content-to-live/)

[Harold Pinter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harold-pinter/)

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> [There are times when a man should be content with what he has but never with what he is](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-george-jordan/there-are-times-when-a-man-should-be-content-with-what-he-has-but/)

[William George Jordan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-george-jordan/)

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> [“If a man's not content in his soul it really doesn't matter where he lives. p. 131)”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brenda-rickman-vantrease/if-a-man-s-not-content-in-his-soul-it-really-doesn-t-matter-where-he/)

[Brenda Rickman Vantrease](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brenda-rickman-vantrease/)

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> [“A man must...not be content to do things well, but must also aim to do them gracefully.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/giovanni-della-casa/a-man-must-not-be-content-to-do-things-well-but-must-also-aim-to-do/)

[Giovanni Della Casa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/giovanni-della-casa/)

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