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I philospher feels that we are contented with little if we have not much, being honestly persuaded that they have the sweetest enjoyment of luxury who stand least in need of it, and that whatever is natural is easily procured and only the vain and worthless hard to win. Plain fare gives as much pleasure as a costly diet, when once the pain of want has been removed, while bread and water confer the highest possible pleasure when they are brought to hungry lips. To habituate one's self, therefore, to simple and inexpensive diet supplies all that is needful for health, and enables a man to meet the necessary requirements of life without shrinking, and it places us in a better condition when we approach at intervals a costly fare and renders us fearless of fortune.

So basically he is saying those who are without appreciates more and they are the ones who are truly happy when they obtain things such as money and food even if it just a little as long as it is enough to keep them healthy.

2006-11-27 12:17:14 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities Philosophy

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Money is not everything!!!
However you need to money to buy food, clothes have a roof over your head. Those without don't appreciate more if you have or have not it comes down to whether you appreciate it or not regardless of how much money you have.

2006-11-27 13:10:56 · answer #1 · answered by princess ana j 3 · 0 1

Rich people, lets face it , they do have it better !! Are they happier for having it all ?? is hard to say ... the consensus is not , It seams that for the rich is not how much they have, as the joy is in the effort they put into getting it , they say that money isn't every thing ( well that's easy to say when one has it all ). On one side as much as we despise the rich for all they have , they are a necessary evil , because they are the owners or the head of companies that even though they pay us unfairly , they do supply the work for us to live on . Happiness is felt when the needed or desired is accomplished , the only difference is that for the rich every effort that they put in things seem to work out, or what doesnt work they persist until the problem is solved , and for the rest of the poor is not so, there always seem to be huge obstacles and we end up acsepting as thing are . When we receive some thing after several efforts , it is a joy for sure , the difference is that the rich with their huge supply of money, have the privilege of not having to worry how to acquire the things they want or need , making the acquisition joyles , which is the opposite for the average person ,that is a joy to get something after a struggle .

2006-11-27 14:08:51 · answer #2 · answered by young old man 4 · 1 1

Richness is a techniques set. you're purely as wealthy to the degree at which you think of you're wealthy. And thats whilst it particularly is going to become a game of the "have and have nots". How wealthy is somebody who has money yet is punctiliously with out happiness? money cant continuously make somebody chuffed. those with 10 million money in the financial company dedicate suicide too. i does no longer define myself as wealthy, yet i'm for specific no longer poor the two. I invested in a 4 3 hundred and sixty 5 days college training, and so far its paying itself off. training is the substantial; in case you inherit a a hundred million money and in no way could artwork, its substantial to bypass to college. no longer each and every thing I found out got here in this variety of a school room lecture, yet rather as exterior expieriences. As for poverty in the worldwide, there is not any straightforward answer. Poverty has been around because of the fact the creation of forex and financial structures. One would argue its an unpleasant effect of ways economies artwork. Even idealistic varieties including communism the place each and every physique is meant to get a similar quantity and fill a functionality, poverty is cutting-edge. as long as there is money in the worldwide and the worldwide relies upon on a financial device, there'll continuously be people who've it and those that dont.

2016-10-04 10:55:35 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

i hate rich people because if they didnt earn the money they are usually snobby and boring and just someone ud wanna beat with stick. unless they worked hard for their money and are good people who r willing to give their money to help others in need.
and money cant attain true happiness for most people because it dont always last but memorys and such last forever or something. i forgot what i was writing about.

2006-11-27 12:28:38 · answer #4 · answered by ? 2 · 0 1

i totally disagree that materialism can offer happiness. i get true pleasure from the little things in life and its simplicity that makes the world real and lovable.

2006-11-27 12:22:13 · answer #5 · answered by lorivs89 2 · 0 1

..money doesn't buy happiness ..happiness comes from good deeds and memories of pleasant experiences we encounter throughout our lives..and you can take that 1 to the bank..

2006-11-27 12:32:24 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 1

money can't buy love but it can rent it

2006-11-27 12:34:04 · answer #7 · answered by al p 3 · 0 0

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