Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
DEMOCRITUSMen will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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The brave man is not only he who overcomes the enemy, but he who is stronger than pleasures.
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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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