Some men are masters of cities, but are enslaved to women.
DEMOCRITUSHappiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
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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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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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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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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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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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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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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.
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The word is the shadow of the deed.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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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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