"Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."

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Source : Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications

Epictetus

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“What difference, at this point, does it make?”
“Pleasures of the mind have this advantage,--they never cloy nor wear themselves out, but increase by employment.”
“Domestic violence refers to acts of violence (physical, sexual, emotional and psychological) that occur between people who have, or have had, an intimate relationship. It tends to involve an ongoing pattern of behaviour aimed at controlling a partner through fear.”
“I don't know how music works, I'm just glad that it does.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 28, 2017
“Men ruled the roost and women played a subservient role [in the 1960s]. Working wives were a rarity, because their place was in the home, bringing up the kids. The women who did work were treated as second-class citizens because it was a male-dominated society. That was a fact of life then. But it wouldn't be tolerated today, and that's quite right in my book... people look back on those days through a thick veil of nostalgia, but life was hard if you were anything other than a rich, powerful, white male.”
“You can either be angry for what you don't have or thankful for what you do have. Do your best and God will do the rest.”
“I'm fascinated by the possibilities of human behavior, of how two people raised the same way can end up at such different places.”

Source : Source: www.nerdprobs.com
“We're in a world of truncated sentences, soundbites and Twitter... [Language] is being eroded -- it's changing. Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us.”

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