

“True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied with what we have, which is sufficient, for he that is so wants nothing. The greatest blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach. A wise man is content with his lot, whatever it may be, without wishing for what he has not.”
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“If I speak of myself in different ways, that is because I look at myself in different ways.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays

“The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.”
― The Complete Essays
― The Complete Essays
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