Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
DEMOCRITUSRaising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Everywhere man blames nature and fate yet his fate is mostly but the echo of his character and passion, his mistakes and his weaknesses.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Sexual intercourse is a slight attack of apoplexy.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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More men have become great through practice than by nature.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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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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