If you wish to make Pythocles wealthy, don't give him more money; rather, reduce his desires.
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.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin·1825The pleasures of the table are for every man, of every land, and no matter of what place in history or society; they can be a part of all his other pleasures, and they last the longest, to console him when he has outlived the rest.
EpicurusThere are two kinds of pleasure: one consisting in a state of rest, in which both body and mind are undisturbed by any kind of pain; the other arising from an agreeable agitation of the senses, producing a correspondent emotion in the soul. It is upon the former of these that the enjoyment of life chiefly depends. Happiness may therefore be said to consist in bodily ease, and mental tranquility.
Confucius·-500 ADWith coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow — I have still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness are to me as a floating cloud.
