Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.
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The time when most of you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.
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Riches do not exhilarate us so much with their possession as they torment us with their loss.
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It is folly for a man to pray to the gods for that which he has the power to obtain by himself.
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