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Be content with your own share, and you will never be poor.
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations · paraphrase
What it means today

Poverty is the feeling of lacking your share, not the size of the share itself. Contentment with what is yours makes wealth unnecessary.

Try this todayBe content with your own share today, whatever it is.
Today’s questionAm I poor, or just comparing my share to someone else’s?
#contentment#share#wealth
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