If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DEMOCRITUSThe wise man’s home is the universe.
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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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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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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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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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