Life unexamined, is not worth living.
DEMOCRITUSEverything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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The person who can laugh with life has developed deep roots with confidence and faith-faith in oneself, in people and in the world, as contrasted to negative ideas with distrust and discouragement.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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 does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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In a shared fish, there are no bones.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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