#possessions

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul. ↗

— Democritus

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Americans are uneasy with their possessions, guilty about power, all of which is difficult for Europeans to perceive because they are themselves so truly materialistic, so versed in the uses of power. ↗

— Joan Didion

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Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants. ↗

— Epictetus

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A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs. ↗

— Epicurus

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Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters. ↗

— John Wooden

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Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism. ↗

— Edward Gibbon

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You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ↗

— Khalil Gibran

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The design of those commissioners, frigates and warlike force is directed rather against Long Island and these your Honors' possessions, than to the imagined reform of New England. ↗

— Peter Stuyvesant

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Of all possessions a friend is the most precious. ↗

— Herodotus

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After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem. ↗

— Shmuel Y. Agnon

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