We suffered failures of imagination just like everyone else, our daring was wanting, and our daily contentment too nearly adequate for us to give it up.
The true antidote to greed is contentment. If you have a strong sense of contentment, it doesn't matter whether you obtain the object of your desire or not. Either way, you are still content.
Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.
With all our crime and all our immorality. . . and about as much contentment and respose as a fresh-caged hyena, we go to tell the whole world: we are the only one with the right idea!