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Aristotle1 quote
It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more. — Aristotle · 350 BCHenry David Thoreau1 quote
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone. — Henry David Thoreau · 1854Jianzhi Sengcan1 quote
Even to be attached to the idea of enlightenment is to go astray. — Jianzhi Sengcan · 606Seneca1 quote
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. — Seneca · 65Socrates1 quote
Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. — Socrates · 240Tyler Durden1 quote
The things you own end up owning you. — Tyler Durden · 1999Zhuang Zhou1 quote
Those who are contented and at ease when the occasion comes and live in accord with the course of Nature cannot be affected by sorrow or joy. This is what the ancients called release from bondage. Those who cannot release themselves are so because they are bound by material things. — Zhuang Zhou · 221 BC