If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DEMOCRITUSNothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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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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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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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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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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To a wise and good man the whole earth is his fatherland.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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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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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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