Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
DEMOCRITUSThe 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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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Nature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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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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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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 sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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