“In my opinion, every rich man is a miser.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book I, Ch. 14
Essais (1595), Book I
“There is a saying in Tibetan that “at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar.””
The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one’s desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction.
In [Rubin, Gary, Your Emotional Fitness: Everything You Need to Know to Live a Life of Abundance, http://books.google.com/books?id=CGqu8-5W7UUC&pg=PA173, April 2013, Balboa Press, 978-1-4525-7059-4, 173–].
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