To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
DEMOCRITUSFortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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