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“I have observed this in my experience of slavery, that whenever my condition was improved, instead of increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one.”
Frederick Douglas
“An author is a fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on boring future generations”
Charles de Montesquieu
“He has the most who is most content with the least”
Diogenes
“He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.”
William Shakespeare
“Examine the contents, not the bottle”
The Talmud
“My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more”
Charles Lamb
“There are times when it is best to be content with what one has, so as not to lose everything.”
Jose Saramago
“I figure it's like something that has to be, before Marvin and me can be content with ourselves. There is a burning desire in me now.”
Sugar Ray Leonard
“Unjust laws exist: shall we be content to obey them”
Henry David Thoreau
“Love-matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.”
Countess of (Marguerite Gardiner) Blessington
