Envy creates the beginning of strife.
DEMOCRITUSIt 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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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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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It is better to destroy one’s own errors than those of others.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Do not trust all men, but trust men of worth; the former course is silly, the latter a mark of prudence.
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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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