Happiness does not reside in strength or money; it lies in rightness and many-sidedness.
DEMOCRITUSMen should strive to think much and know little.
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Nature has buried truth deep in the bottom of the sea.
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Many much-learned men have no intelligence.
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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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Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
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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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All things happen by virtue of necessity.
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Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.
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Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
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Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion.
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Men will cease to be fools only when they cease to be men.
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You can tell the man who rings true from the man who rings false, not by his deeds alone, but also by his desires.
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Tis hard to fight with anger, but the prudent man keeps it under control.
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I would rather discover one true cause than gain the kingdom of Persia.
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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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Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
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