If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.

Badly gotten, badly spent.
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Bad Spent
That man is worthless who knows how to receive a favor, but not how to return one.
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Known Man Oneself Return Worth
If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
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Anand Thakur
Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
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Age Capacity Wisdom
The gods confound the man who first found out How to distinguish hours! Confound him, too, Who in this place set up a sun-dial, To cut and hack my days so wretchedly Into small portions.
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Anand Thakur
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
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Anand Thakur
To make any gain some outlay is necessary.
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Anand Thakur
Courage easily finds its own eloquence.
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Anand Thakur
Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.
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Desire Fast Known Trouble
I esteem death a trifle, if not caused by guilt.
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Death Esteem Guilt Reason
If anything is spoken in jest, it is not fair to turn it to earnest.
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Anand Thakur
No man will be respected by others who is despised by his own relatives.
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Man Relative Respect
It is much easier to begin than to end.
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Anand Thakur
He who dies for virtue does not perish.
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Anand Thakur
It is best to know the worst at once.
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Best Oneself Worst
It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.
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