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.
DEMOCRITUSFortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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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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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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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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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Throw moderation to the winds, and the greatest pleasures bring the greatest pains.
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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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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
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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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