"It is great wealth to a soul to……" — Lucretius
"It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind."
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97 Quotes by Lucretius
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All religions are equally sublime to the ignorant, useful to the politician, and ridiculous to the philosopher.
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So potent was religion in persuading to evil deeds.
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Though the dungeon, the scourge, and the executioner be absent, the guilty mind can apply the goad and scorch with…
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No single thing abides; but all things flow. Fragment to fragment clings - the things thus grow Until we know…
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For thee the wonder-working earth puts forth sweet flowers.
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In a brief space the generations of beings are changed, and, like runners, pass on the torches of life.
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Pleasant it is, when over a great sea the winds trouble the waters, to gaze from shore upon another's great…
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Pleasant it to behold great encounters of warfare arrayed over the plains, with no part of yours in peril.
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From the heart of this fountain of delights wells up some bitter taste to choke them even amid the flowers.
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small…
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The body searches for that which has injured the mind with love.
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Whenever anything changes and quits its proper limits, this change is at once the death of that which was before.
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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible.
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A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.
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Sad will be the day for any man when he becomes contented with the thoughts he is thinking and the…
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To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but…
— Akhenaton
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Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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How true it is that, if we are cheerful and contented, all nature smiles, the air seems more balmy, the…
— Orison Swett Marden
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Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a taxing machine, to the contented a machine for securing property.
— Thomas Carlyle
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In every man's mind the good seeds of liberty are planted, and he who brings his fellow down so low,…
— Henry Highland Garnet
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What continues to astonish me about a garden is that you can walk past it in a hurry, see something…
— Dorothy Gilman
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Break not the rose; its fragrance and beauty are surely sufficient, resting contented with these, never a thorn shall you…
— John Hay
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find?…
— George Bernard Shaw
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