Being content Quote by Niccolo Machiavelli

So long as the great majority of men are not deprived of either property or honor, they are satisfied.

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Men are disposed to live honestly, if the means of doing so are open to them.

— Thomas Jefferson

Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.

— Thomas Jefferson

Men do not really live for honors or for pay; their happiness is not in the taking and holding, but in the doing, the…

— Harry Marsh

You see, after all, few rich men own their property. The property owns them.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

What men value in this world is not rights but privileges.

— H. L. Mencken

Man rarely places a proper valuation upon his womankind, at least not until deprived of them.

— Jack London

The reason why men enter into society is the preservation of their property.

— John Locke

Very few men, properly speaking, live at present, but are providing to live another time.

— Jonathan Swift

Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will…

— Aristotle

Whatever men live for, today most live only because of the market order.

— Friedrich August von Hayek

Without dignity, identity is erased. In its absence, men are defined not by themselves, but by their captors and the circumstances in which they…

— Laura Hillenbrand