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Epicurus
Epicurus
-280 AD·Athens, Greece

If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.

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300 BCE·Athens, Greece

Plain savors bring us a pleasure equal to a luxurious diet, when all the pain due to want is removed; and bread and water produce the highest pleasure, when one who needs them puts them to his lips.

300 BC·Athens, Greece

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things only hoped for.

He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.

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EpictetusEpictetus·106 AD

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

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He is richest who is content with the least, for contentment is the wealth of nature.

Lao TzuLao Tzu·600 BC

He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

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