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Epicurus's Lessons On Contentment In Life

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3 min readMar 12

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‘Contentment is the result of spiritual awareness which allows you to recognise excesses and negativity.’

Epicurus, Greek Philosophy. Died circa 270 BC. Photo Credit: Stanford University

The Oxford dictionary defines contentment as “a state of happiness and satisfaction.” However, contentment can only be understood or explained by defining discontentment, that is its opposite. Discontentment is exposing the…

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