Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
DEMOCRITUSFortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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 your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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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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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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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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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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Poverty 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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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