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Contentment

Images

  • Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.
  • Diogenes, being offered whatever he wants by Alexander the Great, asks Alexander to step aside so that he can see the sun: Alexander realizes that the person who desires little is happier than the person who demands much. Etching by S. Rosa.
  • Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.
  • A man and a woman sit contentedly in their room, he is smoking a pipe while she sews. Etching by H. Struck after Claus Meyer.
  • The sword of Damocles hangs over a laurel wreath, representing complacency about tuberculosis in France after World War I. Colour lithograph after G. Capon and G. Dorival, 1918.
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Catalogue

    • Books

    The little big things : a young man's belief that every day can be a good day / Henry Fraser ; [foreword by J.K. Rowling].

    Fraser, Henry (Author) | Date: 2017
    • Books

    How to be content : an ancient poet's guide for an age of excess / Horace ; selected, translated and introduced by Stephen Harrison.

    Horace | Date: [2020]
    • Books

    The magical power of being present.

    @tinyvictorieszine | Date: [2018]
    • Ephemera
    • Online

    Damon's advice to Chloe, or, Darby and Joan.

    | Date: [between 1849 and 1854?]
    • Pictures

    Diogenes, being offered whatever he wants by Alexander the Great, asks Alexander to step aside so that he can see the sun: Alexander realizes that the person who desires little is happier than the person who demands much. Etching by S. Rosa.

    Rosa, Salvatore, 1615-1673. | Date: [between 1600 and 1699] | Reference: 38758i
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