Envy creates the beginning of strife.
DEMOCRITUSLife unexamined, is not worth living.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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The sweetest things become the most bitter by excess.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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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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My enemy is not the man who wrongs me, but the man who means to wrong me.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
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It is greed to do all the talking but not to want to listen at all.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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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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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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