"He has the most who is most content with the least."
"To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other."
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Source: Anthology (Book 3). Book by Joannes Stobaeus, 1536.
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