"He has the most who is most content with the least."
"As a matter of self-preservation, a man needs good friends or ardent enemies, for the former instruct him and the latter take him to task."
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Source: Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics. Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.
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