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Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for read more
Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for, and with obscurity, for being unenvied.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Whether you find satisfaction in life depends not on your tale of years, but on your will.
Now, that's enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
Now, that's enough.
[Lat., Ohe! jam satis est.]
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
This life is not for complaint, but for satisfaction
Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
[Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]
Satisfy a few to please many is bad.
[Ger., Mach' es Wenigen recht; vielen gefallen ist schlimm.]
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his
intellect.
[Fr., Nul n'est content de sa read more
No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his
intellect.
[Fr., Nul n'est content de sa fortune;
Ni mecontent de son esprit.]
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to
whom God has given, read more
Those who seek for much are left in want of much. Happy is he to
whom God has given, with sparing hand, as much as is enough.
[Lat., Multa petentibus
Desunt multa.
Bene est, cui Deus obtulit
Parca, quod satis est manu.]
