Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
DEMOCRITUSReason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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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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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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Good breeding in cattle depends on physical health, but in men on a well-formed character.
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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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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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