“The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.”
About This Quote
Source of this quote is unknown. However, the quote likely comes from the Gorgias when Socrates and Callicles are debating how to live a proper life and how to control your appetite. <div>Callicles: Tell me: are you saying that if a person is to be the kind of person he should be, he shouldn’t restrain his appetites but let them become as large as possible and then should procure their fulfillment from some source or other, and that this is excellence? </div><div><br></div><div>Socrates: Do I persuade you at all, and are you changing your mind to believe that those who are orderly are happier than those who are undisciplined, or, even if I tell you many other such stories, will you change it none the more for that?</div>
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