A Quote by Jacob de Jager
Learn to be satisfied. It is just as easy as being dissatisfied-and much more pleasant.
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Do you believe God's whole world runs by the laws of the few sciences we have been able to discover? Oh, no, Christine, there is more. But people are satisfied. They know so much, they think they know all. And that makes it easy for Nosferatu. That makes it easy for all the devils.
This has taught me that being pleasant is always so much more productive, for I know well the rewards for being good-natured.
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It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
