If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DEMOCRITUSIf your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
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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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Fortune provides a man’s table with luxuries, virtue with only a frugal meal.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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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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Life unexamined, is not worth living.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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The wise man’s home is the universe.
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People sometimes rationalize their greed by saying that it is all for the good of their children but this is nothing but an excuse they use to make their despicable actions appear respectable and praiseworthy.
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One should practice much sense, not much learning.
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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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