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Contentment Quote by Chanakya

“Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.” quote by Chanakya — Download Open image

“Who realises all the happiness he desires? Everything is in the hands of God. Therefore one should learn contentment.”

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that 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. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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Money is made at Christmas out of holly and mistletoe, but who save the vendors would greatly care if no green branch were procurable? One symbol, indeed, has obscured all others-the minted round of metal. And one may safely say that, of all the ages since a coin first became the symbol of power, ours is that in which it…

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