“Who is rich? He who rejoices in his lot.”
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About this quote
Ben Zoma's answer is the third in a set of four definitions, and the point of the pattern is that each one turns a familiar word into something internal. The chapter is a digest of sayings that rabbis taught their students, collected for the kind of memory work that children used to learn in the same way.
Source: Pirkei Avot 4:1