« All Contented Quotes · Socrates's Page
Contented Quotes by Socrates
- 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…
- He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
More Contented Quotes
- Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. — Pearl Bailey
- A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world. — Joseph Addison
- Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the deeds he… — Phillips Brooks
- To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented… — Akhenaton
- Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
- How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the sky clearer,… — Orison Swett Marden
- Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property. — Thomas Carlyle