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Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
(
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
)
To have little is to possess.
To have plenty is to be perplexed.
(
Lao-tzu The Way of Lao-tzu
)
I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing am I in want.
(
Terence Eunuchus
)
An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit.
(
Pliny the Younger Letters
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Every increased possession loads us with new weariness.
(
John Ruskin
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The wise man carries his possessions within him.
(
Bias
)
Desire makes everything blossom; possession makes everything wither and fade.
(
Marcel Proust Les Plaisirs et les Jours
)
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It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed.
(
Vida D. Scudder
)
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