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“Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.”

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Marcus Aurelius writes this in the private notes that became the Meditations, and the English varies between translations. The claim is Stoic rather than modern: the smallness refers to what is required, not to what is permitted.

Source: Meditations, Book VII

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