Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
DEMOCRITUSPoverty 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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Raising children is an uncertain thing; success is reached only after a life of battle and worry.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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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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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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