The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion.
DEMOCRITUSThe wise man’s home is the universe.
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Virtue isn’t not wronging others but not wishing to wrong others.
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The wise man belongs to all countries, for the home of a great soul is the whole world.
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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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Poverty in a democracy is as much to be preferred to what is called prosperity under despots, as freedom is to slavery.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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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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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.
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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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Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
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Men should strive to think much and know little.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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