It is not the place, nor the condition, but the mind alone what it compares its situation to that can make anyone happy or miserable. Compare it to something better - result envy, frustration and sadness. Compare it to something worse - relief, gratitude and happiness.
Roger L'EstrangeThe common people do not judge of vice or virtue by morality or immorality, so much as by the stamp that is set upon it by men of figure.
Roger L'EstrangeTis not necessity, but opinion, that makes men miserable; and when we come to be fancy-sick, there's no cure.
Roger L'Estrange