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Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.Cicero · Pro Plancio 80
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Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.Epicurus · Vatican Sayings 35
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Contentment is a treasure that is never exhausted.Arabic proverb
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The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.Rabindranath Tagore · Fireflies
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Forever is composed of nows.Emily Dickinson · "Forever — is composed of Nows"
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What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?George Eliot · Middlemarch, Chapter 72
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The children of Adam are limbs of one another, created from a single essence: when fate afflicts one limb with pain, the other limbs cannot remain at rest.Saadi · Gulistan, Chapter 1
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Speak such gentle words that they cool the heart: words that give joy to others and leave peace within yourself.Kabir · Kabir doha (oral tradition)
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In the happiness of the people lies the ruler's happiness; in their welfare, his welfare. His own pleasure is not his good — the good of the people is his good.Chanakya · Arthashastra 1.19
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As a day well spent brings happy sleep, so a life well used brings a happy death.Leonardo da Vinci · Notebooks (Codex Trivulzianus)
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