Envy creates the beginning of strife.
DEMOCRITUSRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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The man who is fortunate in his choice of son-in-law gains a son; the man unfortunate in his choice loses his daughter also.
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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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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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