By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
DEMOCRITUSRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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