Gratitude

Epicurus, fragment 469 Usener (tr. Brad Inwood and Lloyd P. Gerson):

I am grateful to blessed Nature, because she made what is necessary easy to acquire and what is hard to acquire unnecessary.

χάρις τῇ μακαρίᾳ Φύσει, ὅτι τὰ ἀναγκαῖα ἐποίησεν εὐπόριστα, τὰ δὲ δυσπόριστα οὐκ ἀναγκαῖα.