contentment Quotes

In everything, satiety closely follows the greatest pleasures.

Cease to inquire what the future has in store, and take as a gift whatever the day brings forth.

We rarely find anyone who can say he has lived a happy life, and who, content with his life, can retire from the world like a satisfied guest.

Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

The happy man is not he who seems thus to others, but who seems thus to himself.

The miser is as much in want of what he has as of what he has not.

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.