Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
DEMOCRITUSHappiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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