Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
DEMOCRITUSImmoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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