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. (Plutarch)

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.

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