Of all the people in the world, those who want the most are those who have the most.
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
If you desire many things, many things will seem but a few.
The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.
Want is a growing giant whom the coat of Have was never large enough to cover.
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.
How many things there are which I do not want.
Moderate desires constitute a character fitted to acquire all the good which the world can yield. He who has this character is prepared, in whatever situation he is, therewith to be content and has learned the science of being happy.
Were a man to order his life by the rules of true reason, a frugal substance joined to a contented mind is for him great riches.
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
Man needs so little ... yet he begins wanting so much.
Man never has what he wants, because what he wants is everything.
We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.
He is not rich that possesses much, but he that covets no more; and he is not poor that enjoys little, but he that wants too much.
Independence may be found in comparative as well as in absolute abundance; I mean where a person contracts his desires within the limits of his fortune.
One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.
If you would but exchange places with the other fellow, how much more you could appreciate your own position.
We should learn, by reflection on the misfortunes of others, that there is nothing singular in those which befall ourselves.
Double-no, triple-our troubles and we'd still be better off than any other people on earth.
I wept because I had no shoes, until I saw a man who had no feet.
