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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Lucretius
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Joseph Sobran
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
Jerome K. Jerome
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert
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It is great wealth to a soul to live frugally with a contented mind.
Lucretius 
60% of people like this quote
Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected; they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.
Joseph Sobran
59% of people like this quote
If you are foolish enough to be contented, don't show it, but grumble with the rest.
Jerome K. Jerome
58% of people like this quote
It is right to be contented with what we have, never with what we are.
James Mackintosh
56% of people like this quote
It is a wise man that does know the contented man is never poor, whilst the discontented man is never rich.
Frank Herbert
56% of people like this quote
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton
54% of people like this quote
People who have tried it, tell me that a clear conscience makes you very happy and contented; but a full stomach does the business quite as well, and is cheaper, and more easily obtained.
Jerome K. Jerome
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It becomes us, therefore, to be contented, and dutiful subjects.
Jonathan Mayhew
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Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
53% of people like this quote
A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
Titus Maccius Plautus
53% of people like this quote
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