1. If you are contented as a human being, where can you live uneasily? ——Yelü Chucai

2. Be content and content, be able to endure and be content. ——Book excerpt

3. Those who are greedy will hate jade when they share gold; they will be resentful when they are granted a public title; they will beg for themselves. For those who are content, quinoa soup is better than ointment, cloth robes are warmer than foxes and raccoon dogs, and the people are not allowed to let the princes go. ——Hong Zicheng

4. There is no sin greater than the desire, no disaster greater than dissatisfaction, and no blame greater than the desire. ——Lao Dan

5. Be content with the breadth of the world, but be greedy for the narrowness of the universe. ——Zeng Guofan

6. Be content without being greedy, know restraint without being promiscuous. ——Lin Bu