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#137: How to Practice Poverty and Reduce Fear

The Tim Ferriss Show

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How Far Can Poverty Be From Being a Blow?

Even epicurus, the teacher of pleasure, used to observe stated intervals during which he satisfied his hunger in niggardly fashion. Do you think that there can be fulness on such fare? Yes. And there is pleasure also, not that shifty and fleeting pleasure which needs a fillip now ten, but a pleasure that is steadfast and sure. For though water barley meal and crusts of barley bread are not a cheerful diet, yet it is the highest kind of pleasure to be able to derive pleasure from this sort of food. So begin, my dear lucilius, to set apart certain days on which you shall withdraw from your business and make yourself at home with the scant

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