How many torments, on the other hand, can one avoid who knows how to be content with what they have, who sees without envy what they do not possess, who does not try to appear more than they are! Such a person is always rich, because if they look below them, and not above, they always see creatures who have less than them. They are calm, because they do not create chimerical needs for themselves. And is calm, amidst the storms of life, not already a form of happiness?

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