If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
DEMOCRITUSNature and education are somewhat similar. The latter transforms man, and in so doing creates a second nature.
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Reason is often a more powerful persuader than gold.
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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 hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.
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Envy creates the beginning of strife.
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The man enslaved to wealth can never be honest.
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Soul and intellect are just the same things.
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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Good means not [merely] not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
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By desiring little, a poor man makes himself rich.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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The wrongdoer is more unfortunate than the man wronged.
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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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Everything existing in the universe is the fruit of chance and necessity.
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